The Psychosocial Impact of Treating Patients with COVID-19 on Psychiatry Residents in a Community Hospital: a Qualitative Study.

OBJECTIVE: The authors explored the experiences of psychiatry residents caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic on a medical unit. METHODS: From June 2020 through December 2020, structured, individual interviews were conducted with psychiatry residents deployed to internal medicine wards in a community hospital to provide medical care to COVID-19 patients for greater than or equal to 1 week. Interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analytical methods. RESULTS: Psychiatry residents (n = 16) were interviewed individually for approximately 45 min each. During the interviews, many residents described emotions of fear, anxiety, uncertainty, lack of preparedness, and difficulty coping with high patient mortality rates. Many of the residents expressed concerns regarding insufficient personal protective equipment, with the subsequent worries of their own viral exposure and transmission to loved ones. Multiple residents expressed feeling ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients, in some cases stating that utilizing their expertise in mental health would have better addressed the mental health needs of colleagues and patients' families. Participants also described the benefits of processing emotions during supportive group sessions with their program director. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a public health crisis with potential negative impacts on patient care, professionalism, and physicians' well-being and safety. The psychiatry residents and fellows described the overwhelmingly negative impact on their training. The knowledge gained from this study will help establish the role of the psychiatrist not only in future crises but in healthcare as a whole.

When Overdose of Doxylamine Leads to Severe Rhabdomyolysis and Renal Failure That Requires Hemodialysis: A Case Report and Literature Review.

A 52-year-old male with acute onset right-sided weakness, numbness, and buttock pain after consuming 30 tablets of doxylamine antihistamine the night prior. Laboratory tests showed elevated creatinine kinase, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, troponins, liver transaminases, and phosphate. The patient was admitted to the medical intensive care unit for severe rhabdomyolysis, acute liver failure, and acute kidney injury secondary to doxylamine intoxication. Studies describe symptoms of severe doxylamine intoxication, such as impaired consciousness (coma), grand mal seizures, and cardiopulmonary arrest. Circulating myoglobin causes oxidative injury to the kidney through the formation of F2-isoprostanes leading to renal vasoconstriction. One study explained drug-induced rhabdomyolysis via two mechanisms: direct drug injury to the striated muscle and local muscle compression in seizure, coma, and metabolic abnormality. Treatment involves aggressive hydration with monitoring of serum electrolytes and renal function. Aggressive volume expansion via intravenous fluids remains critical in preventing rhabdomyolysis-associated nephrotoxicity and myoglobin-induced acute renal failure. Alkalinization of urine may prevent renal vasoconstriction resulting in enhanced excretion of the toxic metabolites of doxylamine and myoglobin via renal tubules, thereby reducing peak serum concentration time and preventing direct renal tissue damage.

A Rare Case Report of 17q23.1q23.2 Microdeletion With Homozygosity of 11p11.2q13.4 in a Newborn.

We present the case of a newborn with 17q23.1q23.2 microdeletion and additional homozygosity of 11p11.2q13.4. In the literature, 17q23.1q23.2 microdeletion syndrome is a novel syndrome reported in nine patients. Our patient is a full-term baby boy admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit for hypoglycemia, respiratory distress, presumed sepsis, and thrombocytopenia. General appearance revealed microcephaly, micrognathia, ankyloglossia, small mouth, and high arch palate. The patient also presented with hypotonia, poor feeding, and poor weight gain in the first week of life followed by hypertonia and tremors from the second week of life. The phenotypic and clinical presentation lead to the genetic investigation of microarray which revealed 17q23.1q23.2 microdeletion and additional homozygosity of 11p11.2q13.4.

Acute amnesia caused by left fornix infarction: A case report of an unusual entity.

Cerebral infarction is an uncommon and unusual cause of acute amnesia. The fornix is a white matter tract bundle that plays an important function in memory. We present the case of a 60-year-old male presenting with altered mental status and acute onset amnesia with CT and MR imaging demonstrating an acute left fornix infarct. This case serves to further illuminate the findings associated with this uncommon clinical event. In addition, it highlights the importance for physicians across multiple subspecialities to maintain an index of suspicion for fornix infarct in the evaluation of acute onset amnesia.