Emergency Rooms

In this compilation, the authors offers nurses, emergency-care doctors, psychiatrists, and other personnel involved in the multidisciplinary assessment, management and treatment of intoxicated patients in the emergency department setting an overview of the literature on psychomotor agitation associated to alcohol or drug abuse. Subsequently, an overview of the literature on suicide assessment and prevention and suicidal ideation is provided. In closing, the authors instruct administrators on how to schedule elective patients appropriately, using Linear Programming, to achieve full utilization of its resources seven days per week.