Biomaterial Database

Emergency medicine, psychiatry, and the law. 1993

D T Armitage, and G M Townsend

Department of Legal Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.

The emergency department physician must assess, initiate treatment, and arrange for the disposition of patients whose presentation reflects disordered thinking, emotions, and behavior. Unique diagnostic, management, and medicolegal challenges must be met daily. Understanding the issues inherent in the various stages of involvement with such patients helps reduce medicolegal risk and facilitates the provision of appropriate health care.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004635	Emergency Medicine	The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.	Medicine, Emergency
D004637	Emergency Services, Psychiatric	Organized services to provide immediate psychiatric care to patients with acute psychological disturbances.	Emergency Psychiatric Services,Psychiatric Emergency Services,Services, Emergency Psychiatric,Services, Psychiatric Emergency,Emergency Psychiatric Service,Emergency Service, Psychiatric,Psychiatric Emergency Service,Psychiatric Service, Emergency,Psychiatric Services, Emergency,Service, Emergency Psychiatric,Service, Psychiatric Emergency
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523	Mental Disorders	Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.	Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.