TABLE 6.
Criteria for Hospital Admission for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Eating Disorders
| Anorexia Nervosa |
|---|
| • <75% ideal body weight, or ongoing weight loss despite intensive management |
| • Refusal to eat |
| • Body fat <10% |
| • Heart rate <50 beats per minute daytime; <45 beats per min nighttime |
| • Systolic pressure <90 |
| • Orthostatic changes in pulse (>20 beats per min) or blood pressure (>10 mm Hg) |
| • Temperature <96°F |
| • Arrhthymia |
| Bulimia Nervosa |
| • Syncope |
| • Serum potassium concentration <3.2 mmol/L |
| • Serum chloride concentration <88 mmol/L |
| • Esophageal tears |
| • Cardiac arrhythmias including prolonged QTc |
| • Hypothermia |
| • Suicide risk |
| • Intractable vomiting |
| • Hematemesis |
| • Failure to respond to outpatient treatment |
