Psychiatric Emergencies

Name: Psychiatric Emergencies
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ISBN: 9780192624772

ISBN-10: 0192624776

ISBN-13: 9780192624772

Edition: 1995

Authors: Stephen Merson, David Baldwin

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Psychiatric disorders are common in general medical practice. This handbook is a practical guide intended for all health care professionals frequently required to treat patients with acute psychiatric disorders. An accessible and authoritative guide to the immediate management of the full range of psychiatric problems presented in emergency departments, it is arranged by symptoms rather than diagnoses. The authors offer the reader a systematic guide through assessment and diagnosis, immediate investigations and management, and treatment as far as transferal to specialist departments. They cover assessment and management of the emergency, and guide the reader, in a step-by-step synthesis, to…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.44" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Colleen Houck graduated from the University of Arizona. Before self-publishing her first two novels through BookSurge, she worked as a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter for seventeen years. Her first book, Tiger's Curse, was published in 2009. She writes the Tiger's Curse series, which also includes Tiger's Quest and Tiger's Voyage.

General Principles

General principles of psychiatric management
Clinical Problems
Aggression
Alcohol withdrawal and intoxication
Amnesic syndrome
Confusion
Deliberate self-harm
Delusions
Depression
The 'Disorganisation syndrome'
Drug intoxication and withdrawal states
Fear and panic
Fugue
Hallucinations and other perceptual disturbances
Manipulative behaviour
Physically ill patients refusing treatment
Puerperal psychosis
Somatisation
Stupor and mutism
Emergency use of psychotropic drugs
Emergency use of the Mental Health Act
Liaison with psychiatric services
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