Rehab administrators answer questions regarding Inpatient Psychiatry for Brain Injury (IP). IPRC archives information collected by the Pediatric Rehab Administrator’s ListServ as a public service to the entire Pediatric Rehabilitation Community. All information is posted in summary format and has been de-identified. Search through past queries for responses to rehabilitation related questions.
ORIGINAL QUESTIONS:
Regarding IP psychiatry for pediatric patients with brain injury:
1. Do you have a psychiatrist on staff who is consulted regularly?
2. Do you have access to a psychiatrist who visits the hospital in person to consult, even if not on staff?
3. Do you have some other psychiatric access and can you describe it briefly?
4. If the answers to the above questions were all no, who on your team medically manages injury related behavioral changes (psychosis, depression, agitation, attention, etc.)?