Japanese local government management of compulsory hospitalization for patients with mental disorders and comorbid COVID-19
Asian Journal of Psychiatry - Journal ArticleAdministering medical treatment or managing quarantine for a patient is particularly difficult when a patient harming others or causing self-harm because of severe depression, a manic state, or psychomotor agitation is also infected with COVID-19. Kanazawa University Hospital is the only facility able to manage such difficult cases occurring in Ishikawa prefecture, a local administrative area in Japan. The hospital has arranged a negative pressure apparatus in a psychiatric ward with two protection rooms. This report describes an urgently established but viable system in one prefecture of Japan for treating COVID-19-infected patients with severe psychiatric symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.Copyright © 2021 The Authors
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- Volume: 65
- Pages: 102859
- Date: 2021
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102859
- ISSN: 1876-2018 1876-2026