This deals with the clinical application of psychiatry in a diverse range of emergency situations. It contains succinct evidence-based, yet practical, advice on acute psychiatric issues from experienced clinicians. The wide range of topics covered includes: antipsychotic medication use, care on the psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), safeguarding, perinatal psychiatry and military and civilian trauma. There are chapters on emergencies in children, the learning disabled, older people, plus a specialised chapter on the psychiatric assessment of deaf people. Conversely, it also includes a chapter on medical emergencies on psychiatric wards. This book is concise and readable, yet sufficiently in-depth to lend itself as a reference resource. It will be useful to all junior doctors, especially core psychiatric trainees. It should also be of interest to GPs, nurses and multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals. Contents: 1. Assessment of suicide risk
Rajan Chawla 2. Violence and Aggression
Peter Lepping 3. Management of substance misuse emergencies Derrett Watts
4. Psychiatric emergencies that involve alcohol
Rob Poole 5. Psychotic emergency presentations Richard Hodgson and Santhusi Mendis 6. Psychotropics - acute side-effects Richard Hodgson and Roji Thomas 7. Emergencies in child and adolescent psychiatry
Ken Ma and Vishu Bhadravathi 8. Psychiatric intensive care Faisil Sethi, Roland Dix and Stephen Dye 9. Emergency ECT
Kevin Nicholls 10. 'Safeguarding' and psychiatric emergencies
Jenny Crisp 11. The immediate response to life-threatening medical emergencies within a mental health unit
Nick Swift
12. Emergencies in learning disability psychiatry
David Clarke 13. Emergencies in older persons' psychiatry
Ejaz Nazir 14. Perinatal psychiatric emergencies
Carol Henshaw 15. Civilian and military psychological trauma
Martin Deahl 16. Liaison psychiatry emergencies
Christian Hosker 17. Psychiatric emergencies in deaf people Manjit Gahir, Simon Gibbon and Brendon Monteiro 18. Mental health law and emergencies
Dawn Crowther 19. Poisoning - aspects of assessment and pre-hospital management Kevin Nicholls
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