NUBE Abstract

ABSTRACT

The proceedings contain 14 papers. The topics discussed include providing comprehensive services to treat patients and the inpatient psychiatric bed crisis;impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric substance abuse related presentations to emergency services between July 2019 and March 2022;patient-specific characteristics that influence a psychiatrist' perception of a patient' risk for attempting suicide in the emergency department;racial disparities in emergency restraint use for agitated patients;emergency department use of a restraint chair is associated with shorter restraint periods and less medication use than the use of 4-point restraints;the utility of the Columbia-suicide severity rating scale in determining a patient' imminent risk for suicide in the emergency department;and rare disease masked behind common presentation toxic leukoencephalopathy up close.