Recorded for the 2018 Spring Convention

48 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint

Course Description:Patients with psychiatric Illness frequently present to urgent care. Twelve percent of patients presenting for emergency care have a psychiatric complaint and another 45% screen in for an underlying psychiatric illness. Some of these patients are having a crisis and some a true emergency, while for others, a psychiatric diagnosis lurks on the background. It is important to identify and treat these different presentations correctly and ensure that they are referred to the correct location. Join Dr Zun in this discussion of how to best evaluate and treat psychiatric patients in the urgent care setting.

Speaker: Leslie S. Zun, M.D., M.B.A. is Chairman & Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, Illinois and attending in the emergency department in the Sinai Health System in Chicago, Illinois. His background includes a medical degree (M.D.) from Rush Medical College and a business degree (M.B.A.) from Northwestern University’s School of Management. He has presented his research and lectured on management and behavioral emergencies topics both nationally and internationally. He is President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and prior board member of American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He is the chief editor of the Behavioral Emergencies for Emergency Physicians textbook and course director for the past eight years for the National Update on Behavioral Emergencies conference.

Disclosures:

None

1 CME

Designation Statement

The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accreditation Statement

The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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