Emergency Admission
Psychiatric emergencies includes conditions like suicide attempts, substance use disorders ( acute intoxication, severe withdrawal, delirium, or substance poisoning). Presence of delusions or hallucinations or extreme moods leading to destructive behaviour like self-harm, harm to others, damage to property, or extreme risk taking behaviours, panic attacks and abrupt changes in behaviour like memory disturbances or unprovoked aggression.
While mostly all psychiatric admissions are done on voluntary basis some of them might require involuntary admissions. Involuntary admissions are usually short stays involving crisis stabilization of potentially life threatening conditions.
Involuntary admissions are usually done in cases of:
(i) has recently threatened or attempted or is threatening or attempting to cause bodily harm to themselves; or
(ii) has recently behaved or is behaving violently towards another person or has caused or is causing another person to fear bodily harm from them; or
(iii) has recently shown or is showing an inability to care for themselves to a degree that places the individual at risk of harm to themselves.
Sleep Study
It is an overnight, non-invasive study that helps monitor your brain and body’s activity levels during sleep. It is suggested to diagnose disorders like Insomnia, Sleep Apnoea, Restless Leg Syndrome, Sleep Walking/Talking, Narcolepsy, etc., For the sleep study to be effective, admission for a night would be required.