What is it about?
About 75% of suicide occurs without prior mental health service contact. Most of this 75% have contact with medical services including general hospital
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Why is it important?
Increasingly, we are understanding that perturbations of humoral immunity 9IL1, IL6, TNF Alpha) are involved in suicidality; thereby explaining medical contact. Leads to consideration of immune modulation and anti inflammatory measures for assisting suicidality
Perspectives
There could be biological markers (signatures involving cytokines, kinokines ) suggesting high suicidal risk. This article led up to developing crisis teams post discharge from general hospital.
Dr Prasanna Nemichandra de silva
NHS Providers
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This page is a summary of: ‘The Health of the Nation’, suicide and the general hospital doctor, Psychiatric Bulletin, March 1998, Royal College of Psychiatrists,
DOI: 10.1192/pb.22.3.150.
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