Paragraph 6: Management of psychiatric emergencies

When an analysis of the activity of an emergency facility reveals a large number of patients requiring psychiatric care, the facility must have a psychiatrist on duty at all times. If this psychiatrist is not a member of the emergency department team, he or she will work within the framework of the agreement provided for in article D. 6124-26-8. In the case other than that provided for in the first…

In addition to the members mentioned in articles D. 6124-17 to D. 6124-21, the staff of the emergency department of a health care establishment includes at least, depending on the case : 1° A nurse with professional experience in a psychiatric facility ; 2° A nurse belonging to an establishment mentioned in 1° of article L. 3221-1 ; 3° A nurse belonging to the psychiatric structure of the establishment when…

When it is not authorised to carry out psychiatric care activities, the establishment authorised to operate an emergency facility and one or more establishments mentioned in 1° of article L. 3221-1 operating in the emergency medicine health territory shall enter into an agreement with each other. This agreement specifies the conditions for implementing the provisions of articles D. 6124-26-6 and D. 6124-26-7. This agreement also specifies the conditions under which…

When the establishment authorised to operate an emergency unit is also authorised to provide psychiatric care, the head of the emergency unit and the head of the psychiatric unit shall draw up a protocol for the management of patients requiring psychiatric care. If the establishment does not have the authorisation referred to in article L. 3222-1, it enters into an agreement with a health establishment authorised to provide psychiatric care…

The stipulations of the agreements mentioned in articles D. 6124-26-8 and D. 6124-26-9 are included, where applicable, in the network’s constitutive agreement provided for in article R. 6123-29.