1. Management of the Suicidal Pediatric Patient: An Emergency Medicine Problem
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Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan and Sergio V. Delgado
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Pediatric patient ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Emergency medicine ,Emergency Medicine ,medicine ,Epidemiology of suicide ,Medical emergency ,Emergency physician ,business ,Cause of death - Abstract
Suicide in children and adolescents is a serious cause of concern for emergency department physicians. Suicide remains a leading cause of death and potential years lost in children and adolescents. Children who are acutely suicidal often present to the emergency department for medical and psychiatric care and evaluation. This article will discuss the epidemiology of suicide in children and provide the emergency physician a framework from which to evaluate and manage children who are acutely suicidal.
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- 2013
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