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Claudia Anghel
Telepsychiatry in the Romanian Health System During COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract With the covid-19 pandemic and the related restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus, the interaction between doctor and patient has changed, especially in the outpatients department. Thus, the need for remote consultations also appeared in the Romanian health system, especially in the psychiatric one. Although in other countries psychiatrists were familiar with this form of consultation, for Romanian psychiatrists, who were not trained either in residency or during medical school, it was a great challenge. If until March 2020 the patient’s consultation had to be performed only in the physical presence of a doctor, once the COVID-19 pandemic appeared, the Romanian government a…
“Challenges and controversies regarding involuntary hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital. Ethical aspects”
Abstract It is crucial to inform the public about the procedures in psychiatric practice, meant to ensure complex and adequate medical care for the mentally ill patient, in respect of the dignity and rights of the patient, but also according to legal regulations. The occurrence of twisted considerations about psychiatry and patients with mental illness is due to the lack of information about mental illness, the beneficial effects of drug therapy, the need for hospitalization and patient protection in a psychiatric hospital, as part of treatment. When a psychiatric patient is brought in the guard room of a psychiatric hospital by the public services (EMT, police, public guardians, etc.), by …
Setting up an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) Department in the Psychiatric Hospital “Dr. GH. Preda” of Sibiu
Abstract Electroconvulsive therapy has a long history, with periods of approval and of contradiction. The electroconvulsive therapy department in our hospital has a long tradition: it was initiated in 1940 and used for a period of five decades, after which it was abandoned due to several reasons. Starting with the year 2019, it was desired to create a new ECT department that corresponds to the new modern requirements of ECT’s application (under anesthesia). This department was built according to the Portuguese model of the ECT department with the main purpose to increase the accessibility of psychiatric patients to this type of treatment, to decrease the number of hospitalization days for t…
Quality of Occupational Therapy Services in the Ergotherapy Department of the “Dr. Gh. Preda” Psychiatric Hospital of Sibiu
Abstract The patients with psychiatric pathology, during the hospitalization in the “Dr.Gh.Preda” Psychiatric Hospital of Sibiu attend to the activities carried out in the ergotherapy department. The complementary therapies are designed to help the patient to integrate socially and professionally easier. To make this possible, the quality of the services provided to the patients is important. We conducted this study in order to evaluate the quality of these services and to find solutions for possible problems. Occupational therapy has had an important place in the history of our hospital, being a department with tradition in which the quality of the services offered has always been emphasiz…