CL Psychiatry

Volume 3 Issue 3 March, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Radiology Many guidelines recommend neuroimaging in patients with dementia. The indication has progressed from exclusion of a rare finding of treatable pathology to making a probable antemortem diagnosis, with the rationale that patients are better managed when the diagnosis is known. It is important that […]

Volume 3 Issue 2 February, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Plastic Surgery Cosmetic surgery is becoming increasingly popular across all sections of the population. Surgeons are required to recognize the potentially complex psychological milieu of various conditions and the procedures. Aesthetic surgeon is often challenged with conditions where he has to judge the appropriateness of […]

Volume 3 Issue 1 January, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus Cardiology Depressive symptoms are common among post myocardial infarction (MI) patients and may cause negative impacts on cardiac prognosis. Depression is observed in 35-45% of MI patients. While depression is an independent risk factor for MI, post-MI depression has been shown to be a risk […]

Volume 2 Issue 12 December, 2012 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Ophthalmology Symptoms of visual disturbances for which there is no identifiable organic basis are Non Organic Visual Disorders. They are not uncommon and constitute 5% of general ophthalmic practice. It’s a diagnosis after a thorough clinical examination and investigations to ensure that a treatable disease […]

Volume 2 Issue 11 November, 2012 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Dentistry Bruxism has been a much discoursed and debated over topic for dentists, psychiatrist and neurologist likewise. Even today, after decades of research, bruxism still remains a subject in need of more concrete representation. It is a tedious task to study and document facts relating […]

Volume 2 Issues 10 October, 2021 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Anaesthesia Normally, Patients while facing a uneasy reality, such as a surgery, develop tension levels that compromise the emotional, physiological and cognitive abilities. The perioperative anxiety is defined as an emotional state with psychological and physiological elements with diffuse apprehension feelings, uncertainties, unpleasant and discomfort […]

Volume 2 Issues 9, September, 2021 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Surgery Referrals to psychiatry, from surgery department are not uncommon. The patients with somatisation or those with pain, that could not be localized or those with inconsistent clinical findings or those who are too anxious before surgery, do benefit from referral . Not many have […]

Volume 2 Issues 8 August, 2021 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Pharmacology An Overview In search of better tolerability for treatment of Depression, which is a disorder of mood, SSRIs were first introduced in 1987-88. Some of commonly used SSRIs are- Fluoxetine, Fluvoxamine, Sertraline, Paroxetine, Citalopram, Escitalopram. Currently these are the most commonly prescribed antidepressant drugs. […]

Volume 2 Issues 7 July, 2021 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Forensic Medicine Introduction: The interface between mental health, mental illness and resulting criminal behavior is a complex cascade. The further interaction with police and the Judiciary is extremely challenging and most of the scope of this work lies within the specialist field of ‘forensic psychiatry’. […]

Volume 2 Issue 6, June, 2012 Depression, Anxiety & Substance abuse are among the most common mental disorders that are important in community medicine. Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are severe mental disorders causing significant disability. Many psychiatric disorders have been associated with deficiency of dietary nutrients like, essential vitamins, minerals, and […]