711 A five-year review of mental health admissions to a general paediatric department in South-East Ireland

• Published in: Archives of disease in childhood Vol. 108; no. Suppl 2; pp. A371 - A372
• Main Authors: Kerswill, Suzanne, Kuhar, Maja, Attia Kalim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Adolescents; Age; Capacitation; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Children; COVID-19; Departments; Diagnosis; Eating disorders; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Epidemiology; Health care; Hospitals; Mental health; Morbidity; Overdose; Pandemics; Patients; Pediatrics; Psychiatry; Resource allocation; Self destructive behavior; Self-injury; Student Records; Sustainable development; Teenagers; Trends; Ireland

ObjectivesMental health concerns are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in the paediatric population (1,2). A growing number of paediatric mental-health presentations to emergency departments have been reported in the past decade in Ireland and around the world, (3,4) with a further...