MSE
What assessment does the acronym "MSE" stand for?
Mental Status Examination
First Generation, Second Generation, Third Generation.
Antipsychotic Classes
What does the acronym NCR stand for?
Not Criminally Responsible
Brief, momentary, or transitory eye contact.
Fleeting
The acronym ASEPTIC encompasses what components of the MSE.
Appearance (& behavior), Speech, Emotions (mood & affect), Perceptions, Thought (process & content), Insight (& judgement), Cognition
Medication administered in a psychiatric crisis situation, sometimes without the patients consent.
Chemical Restraint
What Mental Health Act Form are NCR patients with a disposition held under?
Form 49
Difficulty forming words, use of incorrect words, and difficulty thinking of specific words.
Aphasia
Seeing visual images of figures, objects, or events but also can refer to seeing shapes, colors or flashes of light.
Visual Hallucinations
First generation antipsychotic with the brand name Haloperidol.
Haldol
What authority are NCR clients placed under?
Ontario Review Board (ORB)
Abrupt, rapid, and repeated shifts of type and intensity of emotion.
Labile
A belief that one's actions, behavior, or feelings are not under personal control or own doing, but are imposed by an external force.
Control Delusion
Second generation antipsychotic often used as a last resort in treatment resistant schizophrenia and/or schizoaffective disorder.
Clozapine
These questions are used to assess what?
Do you know what charges you are facing? Who is your lawyer? and what is their job in the court? What is the crowns job? what is the judges job?
Fitness to stand trial
Fabrication of stories in response to questions about situations or events that are not recalled.
Confabulation
Inability to gain pleasure from activities.
Anhedonia (negative symptom)
What medication combination does the acronym B52 stand for?
Benadryl (50mg) + Haldol (5mg) + Lorazepam (2mg)
Court ordered document, outlining parameters, restrictions, and rules for NCR patients.
Disposition
Adverse reaction to antipsychotic drugs or major tranquilizers. Characterized by hyperthermia (temperature above 38°C), and muscular rigidity, along with at least five of the following features: change in mental status, tachycardia, hypertension or hypotension, diaphoresis or sialorrhea.
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome