Citation

Naito N, Hirosawa T, Tsubomoto M, Sano M, Miyagishi Y, Kameya M, Okuda T, Kikuchi M. Asian J. Psychiatry 2021; 65: e102859.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102859

PMID

34560568

PMCID

PMC8450142

Abstract

Administering 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.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; COVID-19; Japan; Hospitalization; Forensic psychiatry; Mental Disorders; Public mental health; SARS-CoV-2; Pandemics; Local Government; Compulsory hospitalization; Risk of self-harm or harming others