Dr. Kim James Masters MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
200 Ermine Rd West Columbia SC, 29170About
Dr. Kim Masters practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in West Columbia, SC. Dr. Masters evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Masters seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1972
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The HCFA one-hour rule. Health Care Financing Administration.
- Summary of the practice parameter for the prevention and management of aggressive behavior in child and adolescent psychiatric institutions with special reference to seclusion and restraint.
- Resident stress.
- Lamotrigine and informed consent.
- Are physical restraints necessary?
- Pilocarpine treatment of xerostomia induced by psychoactive medications.
- A CBT approach to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.
- Use of pulse oximetry during restraint episodes.
- Pulse oximetry use during physical and mechanical restraints.
- Anti-suicidal and self-harm properties of lithium carbonate.
- Ultrashort stays and a focus on recovery.
- "No suicidal ideation": an inadequate managed care response.
- Allergic reactions and sudden death with asenapine.
- A tantrum test?
- Cure for overhospitalization?
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