Bedside Tool for Managing Suicidal Patients in the ED (2018)

iCAR2E helps physicians identify suicide risk, communicate effectively, reduce risk, and extend care beyond the emergency department. This app is available in a web-based format or can be accessed as a native app by downloading emPOC, ACEP’s new point-of-care (POC) app with five bedside tools that can be downloaded in the App Store or Google Play.

Bedside Tool for Managing Confusion and Agitation in the Elderly ED Patient (2018)

ADEPT, a point of care tool available in both the web-based format and on the emPOC app, helps physicians assess, diagnose, prevent, and treat delirium in elderly ED patients.

Clinical Policy for Adult Patients: Critical Issues in the Diagnosis and Management of theAdult Psychiatric Patient in the Emergency Department (2017)

Read the full statement and view the related eCME options.

Policy Statement: Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies in the Emergency Department (2018)

View the full statement.

Policy Statement: Use of Patient Restraints (2014)

ACEP supports the careful and appropriate use of patient restraints or seclusion. View ACEP’s principles regarding patient restraints.

Information Papers

View the following:

• Care of the Psychiatric Patient in the ED: A Review of the Literature (2014)
• Practical Solutions to Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department (2018)
• Suicide Contagion in Adolescents: The Role of the Emergency Department (2018)

Sobering Centers

Sobering centers provide a safe, supportive environment for mostly uninsured, homeless, or marginally housed publicly intoxicated individuals to become sober, with a goal of decreasing the number of inappropriate ED visits for homeless, alcohol-dependent individuals. Learn more.

Behavioral Emergencies for the Emergency Physician (2013)

This book by Leslie S. Zun, MD, offers a thorough overview on managing patients with a variety of mental health concerns. Find it in the ACEP Bookstore.

Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies

The Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies (CPE) is a group of more than 30 national leaders in emergency medicine, psychiatry, and patient advocacy who are focused on improving the treatment of psychiatric emergencies for patients and emergency providers. The coalition hosts annual pre-conference sessions during ACEP Scientific Assembly to addresses knowledge gaps in acute medical care for emergency psychiatrists and topics on emergency psychiatry for emergency physicians along with other relevant topics. CPE recently collaborated with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to create a new award recognizing innovations in the acute care setting for suicide prevention.
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Mr. Davis is ACEP director of regulatory affairs. Ms. Grantham is ACEP communications manager.