RESUMO
The Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic infectious disease. By its complexity and the importance of psychiatric syndromes observed among HIV patients, the common contribution of somatic and psychiatric health specialists is often mandatory. Conversely, more or less 20 % of psychiatric patients are infected by the AIDS' virus. Moreover, these troubles would be their second reason of hospitalization. These psychiatric symptoms, so caused by HIV, may occur before its serological discovery. Thereby, it will be interesting for the psychiatrist to acquire enough knowledge about this disease to establish preventing actions and strategies of psychoeducation.
Le Syndrome de l'ImmunoDéficience Acquise (SIDA) est une pathologie infectieuse chronique. Par sa complexité et l'importance des syndromes psychiatriques observés chez les patients séropositifs, l'intervention conjointe des professionnels de la santé psychique et somatique peut s'avérer souvent nécessaire. Jusqu'à 20 % des patients psychiatriques seraient également infectés par le virus du SIDA. De plus, ces troubles seraient leur 2ème cause d'hospitalisation. Cette symptomatologie psychiatrique, alors induite par le VIH, pourrait même en précéder la découverte sérologique. Ainsi, il serait intéressant pour le psychiatre d'acquérir suffisamment de connaissances sur cette affection afin d'établir des actions de prévention et des stratégies de psychoéducation.
Assuntos
Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/complicações , Transtornos Cognitivos/etiologia , Transtorno Depressivo/etiologia , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/tratamento farmacológico , Terapia Antirretroviral de Alta Atividade , Transtornos Cognitivos/tratamento farmacológico , Transtorno Depressivo/tratamento farmacológico , Interações Medicamentosas , Humanos , Psicotrópicos/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
Agitation in psychiatry is defined as "a request to which an answer cannot be deferred". If some types of controllable agitation can be solved by human means or psychotropic drugs, others may require the intervention of intensivists who will contribute to the onset of crisis resolution. In addition, an organic aetiology must be carefully excluded a before considering a psychiatric origin of agitation, especially in patients with no psychiatric history and in the elderly. Indeed, acute agitation can hide serious somatic traps and be life threatening.
