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If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit
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Psychotropic drugs have been in the IEHK since 2006, mostly anti-epileptic and anti-convulsant, with depression and psychosis not covered.
“Psychotropic drugs have been included in the IEHK since 2006, but these mostly consisted of anti-epileptic and anti-convulsant medications, while treatment for depression and psychosis was not covered (Van Ommeren et al. 2011).”
From Throwing therapy at the problem mental health and humanitarian intervention in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda (2023) · cites this paper as Van Ommeren et al. 2011
The “Psychotropic Medicines in the IEHK” section says the 2006 edition contained chlorpromazine injections, diazepam injections, and phenobarbital tablets, supporting the account of a limited selection that included anticonvulsant medicines. It says these did not cover *first-line* treatment of depression and psychosis, not that treatment for psychosis was entirely absent; the citing sentence drops that qualifier. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe impetus for expanding psychopharmaceutical use in humanitarian responses emerged largely from the publication of the IASC guidelines.
“Paradoxically, as noted by Van Ommeren and colleagues (2011), the impetus for the expansion of psychopharmaceutical use in the context of humanitarian responses emerged largely from the publication of the IASC guidelines.”
From Throwing therapy at the problem mental health and humanitarian intervention in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda (2023) · cites this paper as Van Ommeren et al. 2011
The Interagency Emergency Health Kit explicitly relied on the EML.
“This would later be expanded to emergency interventions; the afore-mentioned Interagency Emergency Health Kit explicitly relied on the EML (Van Ommeren et al. 2011).”
From Throwing therapy at the problem mental health and humanitarian intervention in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda (2023) · cites this paper as Van Ommeren et al. 2011
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Metadata
- Authors
- van Ommeren, M., Barbui, C., de Jong, K., Dua, T., Jones, L., Perez-Sales, P., Schilperoord, M., Ventevogel, P., Yasamy, M. T., & Saxena, S.
- Affiliations
- World Health Organization (CH)
- University of Verona (IT)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (NL)
- International Medical Corps (US)
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (CH)
- HealthNet TPO (NL)
- Corresponding author
- van Ommeren, Mark
- ORCID
- Venue
- PLoS Medicine
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2011-05-03
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- e1001030
- ISSN
- 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-1676
- PMC
- PMC3086873
- OpenAlex
- W2136228020
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 4.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- PLoS Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Disaster Response and Management
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Emergency Medicine Education and Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- psychotropic drugs, inter-agency cooperation, disaster response, mental health services
- MeSH terms
- Amitriptyline, Diazepam, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Emergencies, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Treatment, Haloperidol, Nervous System Diseases, Phenobarbital, Psychotropic Drugs, Anti-Anxiety Agents, Cholinergic Antagonists
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