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By
Hani Khouzam
Doris Tan
Tirath Gill
Description
This user-friendly resource presents a patient-centered approach to managing the growing incidence of major psychiatric emergencies in
the outpatient setting. Abundant illustrations, tables, and algorithms guide you through the wide range of disorders discussed, and a
color-coded outline format facilitates rapid access to essential information necessary for making a proper diagnosis for optimal management
outcomes.
Audience
Psychiatrist
Contents
1. The Suicidal Patient
2. The Severely Depressed Patient
3. The Violent Patient
4. The Acutely Anxious
Patient
5. Mania
6. The Delirious Patient
7. Psychiatric Assessment
8. Geriatric Emergencies
9.
Psychiatric Emergencies Related to Medical Illnesses
10. Childhood and Adolescent Emergencies
11. Psychiatric Aspects
of Seizure Disorders
12. Schizophrenia and the Acutely Psychotic Patient
13. Personality Disorders and Psychiatric
Emergencies
14. Victims of Abuse
15. Disasters and Extreme Traumas
16. Crisis Intervention and Debriefing
17.
Drug and Alcohol Emergencies
18. Emergent Medications and Psychopharmacological Adverse Effects
19. Factitious
Disorders/ Malingering / Drug-Seeking Behaviors
20. Medicolegal Aspects of Emergency Psychiatry
21. Spirituality
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 688 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04088-4
ISBN-10: 0-323-04088-8
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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