Author/Editor		Saje, Marko; Prebil, Karla; Kores-Plesničar, Blanka
Title		Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic
Type		članek
Publication year		2020
Volume		str. str.
ISSN		0213-6163 - The European journal of psychiatry
Language		eng
Abstract		A case of a middle-aged male, suffering from acute psychosis while in self-isolation due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is presented. The patient required urgent hospital admission due to psychosis, which was only possible to COVID-19 unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the time. After transfer to psychiatric hospital, stool sample, taken as an additional preventive measure, was positive for the novel coronavirus. In addition, the patient experienced spontaneous virus reactivation few weeks later. This case report describes certain dilemmas, based on care for patients with mental illness as Europe stands on the brink of COVID-19 second wave.
Keywords		COVID-19 psychosis inpatient treatment COVID-19 psihoza stacionarno zdravljenje