Serviços de emergência psiquiátrica: peça-chave da rede assistencial

Psychiatric Crisis Management in the Emergency Care Hospital Network

“…Little is known about the organization of emergency teams, considering problems they face on a daily basis or their abilities to establish connections with the substitute services (Brasil, 2010;Del-Ben & Teng, 2010). Among the national studies, we include the study by Dalgalarrondo, Botega and Banzato (2003), who conducted a data collection of 2,047 consecutive admissions in a psychiatric unit in the metropolitan region of Campinas, with a view to socio-demographic and clinical variables associated with the success or failure of hospitalization; a study conducted by Larrobla e Botega (2006) concerning the implementation of a therapeutic model of reference and current situation of psychiatric wards in general hospitals of various cities of Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina States, as well as the exploratory study of Cardoso and Galera (2011), who identified the common characteristics between patients that were recently discharged from psychiatric hospitalizations in the outpatient service of Ribeirao Preto city.…”