Impact of the 2020 lockdown on prehospital psychiatric emergencies in a large city
© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature..
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a serious challenge for healthcare systems worldwide. Special psychiatric patients represent a vulnerable group and are particularly affected by lockdown interventions. Knowledge on the possible effects for this group of patients in an emergency physician setting is low.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on emergency ambulance services for psychiatric patients in a large German city.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on all prehospital psychiatric emergencies in a large German city during the first pandemic-related lockdown from 22 March 2020 to 4 May 2020, with the same period in 2019 serving as a reference.
RESULTS: During the first lockdown there was a significant increase in the number of emergency missions with respect to psychiatric cases. A substantial rise in substance-associated deployments was observed. Moreover, there was an increase in the proportion of psychiatric patients who did not meet emergency criteria. Suicidal tendencies and agitation status played a minor role during the lockdown.
CONCLUSION: The lockdown had a notable impact on the frequency and profile of emergency physician calls in the metropolitan area studied. The substantial increase in substance-associated callouts can be interpreted as both a deterioration in access to the healthcare system and an expression of the increased stress faced by the general population and vulnerable groups in particular.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:73 |
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Die Anaesthesiologie - 73(2024), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 26-32 |
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Auswirkungen des Lockdowns 2020 auf präklinische psychiatrische Notarzteinsätze in einer Großstadt |
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Kirchner, Heribert [VerfasserIn] |
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Covid-19-Pandemic |
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Date Completed 17.01.2024 Date Revised 21.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1007/s00101-023-01370-5 |
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| 520 | |a BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a serious challenge for healthcare systems worldwide. Special psychiatric patients represent a vulnerable group and are particularly affected by lockdown interventions. Knowledge on the possible effects for this group of patients in an emergency physician setting is low | ||
| 520 | |a OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on emergency ambulance services for psychiatric patients in a large German city | ||
| 520 | |a MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on all prehospital psychiatric emergencies in a large German city during the first pandemic-related lockdown from 22 March 2020 to 4 May 2020, with the same period in 2019 serving as a reference | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: During the first lockdown there was a significant increase in the number of emergency missions with respect to psychiatric cases. A substantial rise in substance-associated deployments was observed. Moreover, there was an increase in the proportion of psychiatric patients who did not meet emergency criteria. Suicidal tendencies and agitation status played a minor role during the lockdown | ||
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