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Emergency Psychiatry Glossary
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psychiatric clearance
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Clinical determination that a patient does not require immediate psychiatric intervention or hospitalization.
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Excited Delirium
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A clinical syndrome characterised by extreme agitation, hyperthermia, superhuman strength, and altered consciousness, of...
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Excited Delirium Syndrome
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IVT
A controversial medical and forensic term describing an acute state of extreme agitation, hyperthermia, and altered ment...
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