Management Flashcards
Highest incidence of anorexia?
15-19
What mental disorder has the highest mortality rate?
Anorexia
Risk assessment for anorexia?
MARSIPAN
Anorexia in adults tend to look at their ______ for health
BMI
What is Waterloo scale?
Pressure ulcer prevention for bed ridden patients
Refeeding syndrome in anorexia
Potentially fatal metabolic response to too rapid re-feeding after a period of starvation
7-14 days after
When does referring syndrome happen?
Body switches from carbohydrates to fats and protein as its energy source
What happens cellularly to cause reseeding syndrome?
Intracellular minerals become depleted but serum levels may remain normal - referring stimulates insulin production which causes potassium/magnesium and phosphate to be taken into the cells whilst serum levels fall - rapid change in BMR contributes as well
Supplement to avoid refeeding
Multivitamine - forceval
Thiamine
CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Bulimia treat
CBT
Fluoxetine
ICD definition of adult personality disorders
Individuals characteristic and enduring patterns of inner experience and behaviour deviate markedly as a whole from the culturally expected and accepted range
Personality disorders need to be ________
Pervasive - present across time, maladaptive or dysfunctional
Anankastic definition
Arising from compulsion especially in an obsessive or compulsive neurosis
Traits vs an actual disorder
It is only a disorder if it is:
Pervasive
Causes distress
Causes impairment of functioning in most areas
How do you diagnose a personality disorder?
Clinical
Rating scale for borderline personality disorder
ZANBPD
What % of personality disorders have genetic heritability?
60%
Anxious personality genetic
69%
What proportion of people in general population have a personality ‘disorder’?
10.6%
1/_ psychiatric outpatients have a personality disorder
3
Cluster A personality disorders AKA
Odd and eccentric
What makes up cluster A personality disorders
Paranoid, Schizoid