2017 Volume 63 Issue 2 Pages 103-110
Iizuka Hospital is an acute general hospital in the Chikuho area of Fukuoka Prefecture where psychiatric consultations take place for inpatients. We analyzed the achievements of the liaison team activity over the past year, as a Department of Liaison Psychiatry was established at our hospital in 2016.
We received 613 consultations, and the most frequent psychiatric diagnosis was delirium (N=292). We consulted on 59 suicide attempts.
We must educate the staff on selecting the appropriate psychotropic drugs, as benzodiazepine-type drugs are often used to treat delirium patients. Regular follow-up after a suicide attempt is extremely important, and we must establish a system for adequately following up such patients.
