The interface of psychiatry and COVID-19: Challenges for management of psychiatric patients

COVID-19 is a viral infection that has multisystemic physical and psychological complications. The following paper looks at the various challenges seen while treating psychiatric patients during the COVID pandemic. There is a need for physician to be aware of the drug interactions between psychiatri...

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Autores principales: Javed, Afzal, Mohandas, E., Sousa, Avinash De
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publications 2020
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Special Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704300
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.5.3073
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description COVID-19 is a viral infection that has multisystemic physical and psychological complications. The following paper looks at the various challenges seen while treating psychiatric patients during the COVID pandemic. There is a need for physician to be aware of the drug interactions between psychiatric medications and the medications used routinely in the management of COVID. There is also the concern of psychiatric side effects of medications used to manage COVID and medical complications caused by some side effects of psychiatric drugs. The telepsychiatry and telemedicine paradigm has made it mandatory for physicians to be vigilant of the same.
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spelling pubmed-73726772020-07-22 The interface of psychiatry and COVID-19: Challenges for management of psychiatric patients Javed, Afzal Mohandas, E. Sousa, Avinash De Pak J Med Sci Special Communication COVID-19 is a viral infection that has multisystemic physical and psychological complications. The following paper looks at the various challenges seen while treating psychiatric patients during the COVID pandemic. There is a need for physician to be aware of the drug interactions between psychiatric medications and the medications used routinely in the management of COVID. There is also the concern of psychiatric side effects of medications used to manage COVID and medical complications caused by some side effects of psychiatric drugs. The telepsychiatry and telemedicine paradigm has made it mandatory for physicians to be vigilant of the same. Professional Medical Publications 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7372677/ /pubmed/32704300 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.5.3073 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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