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Risk factors (static) for completed suicide?

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male sex (hazard ratio (HR) approximately 2.0)
history of deliberate self-harm (HR 1.7)
alcohol or drug misuse (HR 1.6)
history of mental illness
depression
schizophrenia: NICE estimates that 10% of people with schizophrenia will complete suicide
history of chronic disease
advancing age
unemployment or social isolation/living alone
being unmarried, divorced or widowed

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Risk factors for future completion of suicide after an attempt?

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efforts to avoid discovery
planning
leaving a written note
final acts such as sorting out finances
violent method
3
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How to remember biological features of anorexia?

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most things low

G’s and C’s raised: growth hormone, glucose, salivary glands, cortisol, cholesterol, carotinaemia

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Difference in conversion disorder, somatisation disorder, malingering and factitious disorder (munchausen’s)?

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Conversion

  • typically involves loss of motor or sensory function
  • the patient doesn’t consciously feign the symptoms (factitious disorder) or seek material gain (malingering)

Somatisation

  • Multiple physical SYMPTOMS present for at least 2 years
  • Patient refuses to accept reassurance or negative test results

Factitious
- The intentional production of physical or psychological symptoms

Malingering
- Fraudulent simulation or exaggeration of symptoms with the intention of financial or other gain

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Management of PTSD?

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following a traumatic event single-session interventions (often referred to as debriefing) are not recommended

watchful waiting may be used for mild symptoms lasting less than 4 weeks

military personnel have access to treatment provided by the armed forces

trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy may be used in more severe cases

drug treatments for PTSD should not be used as a routine first-line treatment for adults. If drug treatment is used then venlafaxine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), such as sertraline should be tried. In severe cases, NICE recommends that risperidone may be used

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Most common cause of drug induced hyponatraemia?

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Most commonly implicated drugs include diuretics (especially thiazides), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), antipsychotics such as haloperidol, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories and carbamazepine.

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What is Cotard syndrome?

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Cotard syndrome is characterised by a person believing they are dead or non-existent

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What is Othello syndrome?

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Othello syndrome is a delusional belief that a patients partner is committing infidelity despite no evidence of this

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What is de clerambault syndrome?

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De Clerambault syndrome (otherwise known as erotomania), is where a patient believes that a person of a higher social or professional standing is in love with them. Often this presents with people who believe celebrities are in love with them.

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What is Ekbom syndrome?

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Ekbom syndrome is also known as delusional parasitosis and is the belief that they are infected with parasites or have ‘bugs’ under their skin.

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What is capgras syndrome?

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Capgras delusion is the belief that friends or family members have been replaced by an identical looking imposter.

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In thought disorder what is Circumstantiality?

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Circumstantiality is similar to tangentiality but the patient, after giving excessive details, eventually returns to the topic.

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In thought disorder what is Tangentiality?

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Tangentiality is where the patient veers off topic and never answers the initial question.

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Common SEs of TCAs?

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drowsiness
dry mouth
blurred vision
constipation
urinary retention

lengthening of QT interval

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Warfarin/heparin and SSRIs interaction?

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Prolonged bleeding, should not be co-prescribed

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Mechanism of action of memantine?

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Memantine - NMDA receptor antagonist

17
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TCAs in elderly/dementia patients?

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Stop

18
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Main contraindication for donepezil?

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Bradycardia