Prescribing practices for psychiatric intensive care during COVID-19

This series of brief reports highlights the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) that had multiple cases of COVID-19 relatively early in the pandemic. The objective is to contribute to learning and consider future challenges for psychiatric intensive care services. This article will outline how the PICU adapted to the rapidly changing situation with consideration of prescribing in COVID-19 and the unique challenges faced by PICU services. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Challenges facing psychiatric intensive care during COVID-19

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has suddenly changed the landscape for psychiatric intensive care services, demanding a rapid transformation in the way that mental health care is delivered. This is the first of a series of articles describing the challenges facing psychiatric intensive care services during the evolving pandemic. Each article will focus on one of several unique challenges encountered during the pandemic, offering a timely account to share learnings. This article sets the scene for how COVID-19 might change psychiatric intensive care services. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

The psychiatric intensive care unit clinical model and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid change in the way healthcare is provided. Pre-existing clinical models of care delivery have had to merge with a new way of working;driven by infection control and minimising the transmission of the virus. In an acute psychiatric setting, this has required many of the existing systems to be deconstructed and rebuilt in a way which at times is unrecognisable. For psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) services, the clinical model is simultaneously suited and opposed to the approach adopted to contain and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores how systems and processes used on a PICU can be translated to tackle challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease.

The psychological impact of COVID-19 on staff and patients in a psychiatric intensive care setting

This article is part of a series exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic affected, and continues to affect, a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) in London, UK. The series so far has focused primarily on the systems, processes and practical challenges of managing acutely disturbed patients in the inpatient setting with the added complexity of COVID-19 infection. This article outlines the psychological impact on staff and patients on a PICU during this time.

Challenges facing psychiatric intensive care during COVID-19

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has suddenly changed the landscape for psychiatric intensive care services, demanding a rapid transformation in the way that mental health care is delivered. This is the first of a series of articles describing the challenges facing psychiatric intensive care services during the evolving pandemic. Each article will focus on one of several unique challenges encountered during the pandemic, offering a timely account to share learnings. This article sets the scene for how COVID-19 might change psychiatric intensive care services.

Challenges facing psychiatric intensive care during COVID-19: mitigating the risk of transmission on a PICU

This is the second of five brief reports which document the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) which faced an outbreak of COVID-19 infection relatively early in the pandemic. The aim is to share what was learnt and examine the challenges which lie ahead for psychiatric intensive care services. This article will present how the PICU adapted to the changing landscape with consideration of the COVID-19 infectious window, infection prevention and control protocols and the unique challenges faced by PICU services.

Prescribing practices for psychiatric intensive care during COVID-19

This series of brief reports highlights the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) that had multiple cases of COVID-19 relatively early in the pandemic. The objective is to contribute to learning and consider future challenges for psychiatric intensive care services. This article will outline how the PICU adapted to the rapidly changing situation with consideration of prescribing in COVID-19 and the unique challenges faced by PICU services.

Risk mitigation and the legal and ethical considerations for COVID-19 in a psychiatric inpatient setting

This series of brief reports highlights the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) that cared for patients with COVID-19 relatively early in the pandemic. The objective is to contribute to learning and consider the challenges for psychiatric intensive care services. This article will discuss COVID-19-related risk prevention and mitigation strategies in a psychiatric inpatient setting, followed by an overview of the legal and ethical challenges, relating to risk prevention, mitigation and restrictive practice, in psychiatric inpatient care during the time of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic from an acute psychiatric perspective: a London psychiatric intensive care unit experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the UK's National Health Service under extreme pressure, and acute psychiatric services have had to rapidly adapt to a new way of working. This editorial describes the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) where all nine in-patients ultimately tested COVID-19 positive.