Consultation- liaison PsychiatryAmalina Aminuddin 0820121000 67

What? Study, practice and teaching of the relation

between medical and psychiatric disorders

Role Consultant to medical colleagues Consults regarding patients in medical/surgical

settings and provide follow up psychiatric treatment

Common Problems Suicide attempt or threat Depression Agitation Hallucinations Sleep disorder Confusion Noncompliance or nonconsenting patient No organic basis for symptoms

Suicide attempt or threat

Depression

Agitation

Hallucinations

Sleep disorder

Confusion

Noncompliance /nonconsenting patient

No organic basis for symptoms

Special situations Intensive Care Units Haemodialysis Units Surgical Units Transplantation issues

References Kaplan and Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical

Psychiatry, 3rd edition, 2014