Cardiac arrest after treatment with intravenous domperidone Domperidone (Motilium, Janssen Pharma... more Cardiac arrest after treatment with intravenous domperidone Domperidone (Motilium, Janssen Pharmaceuticals) is a widely used antiemetic. We report four cases of cardiac arrest after intravenous administration of this drug.
[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fullte... more [email protected]https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher’s website.
Medical recruitment and retention are national problems. Psychiatry has been more affected than m... more Medical recruitment and retention are national problems. Psychiatry has been more affected than many specialties, as a result of stigma from the public and other healthcare professionals. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has undertaken several initiatives to redress this, notably the ‘Choose Psychiatry’ campaign. In this editorial we argue that student-led university psychiatry societies are a wonderful but frequently untapped resource to help attract the brightest and best medical students to our profession. We describe the activities of three ‘Psych Socs’ across the UK and propose next steps to continue this work.
SummaryIn their editorial, Michael et al focus on what they see as shortcomings in one important ... more SummaryIn their editorial, Michael et al focus on what they see as shortcomings in one important area of clinical assessment of psychiatrists in training and they suggest that methods of workplace-based assessment have failed. However, current thinking in assessment of doctors is to consider assessment systems as a whole and we contend that both forms of assessment – clinical examinations and workplace-based assessments – are needed because they fulfil different needs. This is not to argue that more should not be done to ensure that all who are involved in the assessment of doctors are better prepared for the task or that the current portfolio of assessment methods is complete.
This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memor... more This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memory task. Free recall of action-object instruction sequences was measured in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (n=14) and older adult controls (n=15). Instruction sequences were read out loud by the experimenter (verbal-only task) or read by the experimenter and performed by the participants (subject-performed task). In both groups and for all sequence lengths, recall was superior in the subject-performed condition than the verbal-only condition. Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease showed a deficit in free recall of recently learned instruction sequences relative to older adult controls, yet both groups show a significant benefit from performing actions themselves at encoding. The subject-performed task shows promise as a tool to improve working memory in early Alzheimer’s disease.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1994
Ninety-four patients on geriatric wards were examined as part of a study of prevalence of psychia... more Ninety-four patients on geriatric wards were examined as part of a study of prevalence of psychiatric disorders in elderly inpatients. A good correlation was found between depression measured on the HAD and on the Montgomery-Asberg scale. Lower, but still highly significant correlations were found between anxiety measured on the HAD and on the brief anxiety scale (BRAS), between anxiety on the self-rating anxiety scale (SRAS) and the BRAS, and between anxiety on the HAD and the SRAS.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1993
The prevalence of psychiatric illness among 100 elderly medical inpatients was determined using t... more The prevalence of psychiatric illness among 100 elderly medical inpatients was determined using the Geriatric Mental State Schedule, in its Community Version. Due to the difficulties in assessing this group of patients, less than half of those admitted could be included in the study. The diagnostic cases identified were in three groups: organic brain disease (chronic brain failure), depression, and anxiety. Depression was found in 23%, anxiety in 7% and organic brain disease in 13%.
In the past, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been very active challenging abuse in relatio... more In the past, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been very active challenging abuse in relation to psychiatry; I distinctly remember, for example, Dr S. Bloch and others successfully exposing abuse of psychiatry in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s. Why is the College silent about the antediluvian treatment recently endured by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran? Simply by exposing such barbaric practice on the international stage and using its authority, the College may succeed where others have failed, namely in ensuring her immediate release.
Cardiac arrest after treatment with intravenous domperidone Domperidone (Motilium, Janssen Pharma... more Cardiac arrest after treatment with intravenous domperidone Domperidone (Motilium, Janssen Pharmaceuticals) is a widely used antiemetic. We report four cases of cardiac arrest after intravenous administration of this drug.
[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fullte... more [email protected]https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher’s website.
Medical recruitment and retention are national problems. Psychiatry has been more affected than m... more Medical recruitment and retention are national problems. Psychiatry has been more affected than many specialties, as a result of stigma from the public and other healthcare professionals. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has undertaken several initiatives to redress this, notably the ‘Choose Psychiatry’ campaign. In this editorial we argue that student-led university psychiatry societies are a wonderful but frequently untapped resource to help attract the brightest and best medical students to our profession. We describe the activities of three ‘Psych Socs’ across the UK and propose next steps to continue this work.
SummaryIn their editorial, Michael et al focus on what they see as shortcomings in one important ... more SummaryIn their editorial, Michael et al focus on what they see as shortcomings in one important area of clinical assessment of psychiatrists in training and they suggest that methods of workplace-based assessment have failed. However, current thinking in assessment of doctors is to consider assessment systems as a whole and we contend that both forms of assessment – clinical examinations and workplace-based assessments – are needed because they fulfil different needs. This is not to argue that more should not be done to ensure that all who are involved in the assessment of doctors are better prepared for the task or that the current portfolio of assessment methods is complete.
This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memor... more This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memory task. Free recall of action-object instruction sequences was measured in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (n=14) and older adult controls (n=15). Instruction sequences were read out loud by the experimenter (verbal-only task) or read by the experimenter and performed by the participants (subject-performed task). In both groups and for all sequence lengths, recall was superior in the subject-performed condition than the verbal-only condition. Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease showed a deficit in free recall of recently learned instruction sequences relative to older adult controls, yet both groups show a significant benefit from performing actions themselves at encoding. The subject-performed task shows promise as a tool to improve working memory in early Alzheimer’s disease.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1994
Ninety-four patients on geriatric wards were examined as part of a study of prevalence of psychia... more Ninety-four patients on geriatric wards were examined as part of a study of prevalence of psychiatric disorders in elderly inpatients. A good correlation was found between depression measured on the HAD and on the Montgomery-Asberg scale. Lower, but still highly significant correlations were found between anxiety measured on the HAD and on the brief anxiety scale (BRAS), between anxiety on the self-rating anxiety scale (SRAS) and the BRAS, and between anxiety on the HAD and the SRAS.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1993
The prevalence of psychiatric illness among 100 elderly medical inpatients was determined using t... more The prevalence of psychiatric illness among 100 elderly medical inpatients was determined using the Geriatric Mental State Schedule, in its Community Version. Due to the difficulties in assessing this group of patients, less than half of those admitted could be included in the study. The diagnostic cases identified were in three groups: organic brain disease (chronic brain failure), depression, and anxiety. Depression was found in 23%, anxiety in 7% and organic brain disease in 13%.
In the past, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been very active challenging abuse in relatio... more In the past, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been very active challenging abuse in relation to psychiatry; I distinctly remember, for example, Dr S. Bloch and others successfully exposing abuse of psychiatry in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s. Why is the College silent about the antediluvian treatment recently endured by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran? Simply by exposing such barbaric practice on the international stage and using its authority, the College may succeed where others have failed, namely in ensuring her immediate release.
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