The COVID-19 pandemic from an acute psychiatric perspective: a London psychiatric intensive care unit experience. (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Skelton, Luke; Pugh, Ria; Harries, Bethan; Blake, Lucy; Butler, Margaret; Sethi, Faisil
• Is Part Of: BJPsych bulletin. Volume 45:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 76
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: In-patient treatment, -- COVID-19, -- psychiatric intensive care unit, -- pandemic, -- comorbidity; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 616.8905
• DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2020.54
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2056-4694

Abstract

Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has put the UK's National Health Service under extreme pressure, and acute psychiatric services have had to rapidly adapt to a new way of working. This editorial describes the experience of a London psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) where all nine in-patients ultimately tested COVID-19 positive.