Wednesday May 14

Title: Take My Breath Away: Exploring the Benefits of Proactive Psychiatric Consultation for a Patient with Respiratory Depression after Parenteral Olanzapine and Lorazepam

Platform: Zoom

Description: Dr. Elisabeth Dietrich will present a clinical case that highlights the value of embedded psychiatric consultation to proactively care for a manic patient facing respiratory depression after receiving parenteral olanzapine and lorazepam.  Dr. Melissa Bui will serve as the expert discussant and provide a high yield and clinically relevant dialogue surrounding proactive psychiatric consultation in the intensive care setting.  The case presentation and facilitated discussion will be followed by a live audience question and answer session moderated by Dr. David Fipps. The case conference will provide trainees an opportunity to learn about C-L psychiatry and augment C-L education at their institutions. Attendees will learn how to succinctly present a case, observe C-L psychiatrists work through diagnostic challenges, and appreciate management dilemmas that arise in C-L psychiatry.

Trainee presenter: Elisabeth Dietrich, MD, Fellow in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Discussant: Melissa Bui, MD, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Moderator: David Fipps, DO, Senior Associate Consultant in CL, Transplant, and Bariatric Surgery Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine

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