by Courtney Price | Oct 23, 2025 | Grand Round Summaries, mental health, Most Viewed, psychiatry
In this second post on Primary Care in the ED we are going to focus on the acute management and treatment of depression. In part one we focused on HTN and COPD – read more here. ED visits for mental health are rising, and many patients use the ED as their first...
by Shahbaz Syed | Oct 28, 2021 | Commentary, Featured, psychiatry
It is with increasing frequency that we are seeing higher volumes of patients presenting to their family physicians and the Emergency Department with complaints related to anxiety. It was certainly an issue that was noticed pre-COVID19, but the effect that the...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, psychiatry
In the past 5-10 years we have seen a significant increase in mental health-related complaints in the Emergency Department (ED), and during COVID this is especially noticeable. Historically, we’ve classically been taught to focus on performing safety...
