Mental Status Examination & Suicide Risk Assessment

Our favourite psychiatrist Dr James Ellison came down to the booth again to go through Mental State Examination and how we can assess a patient's suicide risk. First up we go through how we can examine a patient's mental state.  The MSE is part of the Psychiatric assessment performed alongside taking a full history.  We at the different composite parts: Appearance Behaviour Speech Mood Thoughts Perceptions Cognition Insight We then look at assessing a patient's suicide risk.  First there are the individual patient and then situational factors going through the more risky features in the history Remember to check out the Take Visually for his episode at www.takeaurally.com. Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM are both on Facebook and Twitter.