Eating disorders: assessment, medical risk and MARSIPAN

Remember the physical red flags with the acronym BLEEP - Bradycardia, Low blood pressure (including a big drop on standing), Electrolyte derangement, ECGElectrocardiogram, a recording of the heart's electrical activity.Read more → change (a prolonged QTc), and Power loss in proximal muscles shown by failing the sit-up or squat-stand test. Then anchor those five markers to the two numbers that open every MARSIPAN assessment - a very low BMIBody mass index, a measure of weight relative to height used to classify weight status.Read more → (Body Mass Index) and a fast rate of weight loss.