ArticleCase reports in psychiatry2019
Premature Death of a Schizophrenic Patient due to Evacuation after a Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima.
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- Categorization of disaster-related deaths in Minamisoma city after the Fukushima nuclear disaster using clustering analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Case Report: Difficulties faced by a home oxygen therapy patient who died after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Importance of continuing health care before emergency hospital evacuation: a fatal case of a hospitalized patient in a hospital within 5 km radius of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2023Article
- Disaster-related deaths with alcohol-related diseases after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident: case series.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Trends in Suicide Mortality in 10 Years around the Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysis of Evacuation and Non-Evacuation Areas in Fukushima Prefecture.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and Severe Mental Illness: Impact on patients and its relation with their awareness about COVID-19.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
- COVID-19, mobile health and serious mental illness.Schizophrenia research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although psychiatric patients are likely to be adversely impacted by disasters, information regarding the processes involved in adverse impacts is limited. In March 2011, Japan experienced an earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. In its aftermath, Takano Hospital, 22 km south of the power plant, underwent forced patient evacuation. A 54-year-old Japanese male with schizophrenia, who had been hospitalized in the psychiatric ward for over 20 years, was transferred and experienced a series of hospital relocations. Although his physical status was intact when he left Takano Hospital, his condition gradually worsened, presumably due to incomplete exchange of patient information between institutions and changes in the treatment environment. Having developed ileus a few days prior, he was bedridden when he returned to Takano Hospital in May 2011. Over the course of treatment, he developed aspiration pneumonia and died in August 2011. A review of medical records revealed that all his purgative medicines had been stopped after his evacuation, possibly contributing to the development of ileus. This case highlights the necessity of establishing systems enabling patient information sharing between institutions in disaster settings and the importance of recognizing that long-term evacuation may have fatal impacts for psychiatric patients.
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