Readership: This handbook will provide Foundation Year doctors and specialist trainees in psychiatry with a useful source of information. It should also appeal to medical students, doctors working in accident and emergency departments, specialist psychiatric nurses, and general practitioners.
Basant Puri, Professor and Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry and Imaging, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK, and Ian Treasaden, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, UK
"...a useful read...[that] delivers a great deal of information...about psychiatric emergencies." - Doody's Notes
Introduction 1: The assessment of psychiatric emergencies 2: The management of psychiatric and medical emergencies 3: Psychiatric symptoms and syndromes presenting as emergencies 4: Aggression and violence 5: Victims of abuse, violence, and disaster 6: Homelessness and loneliness 7: Deliberate self-harm 8: Alcohol misuse and dependence 9: Other psychoactive substance misuse 10: Emergencies related to psychotropic drug actions 11: Psychiatric emergencies in accident and emergency departments 12: Psychiatric emergencies in general hospital medical wards 13: Psychiatric emergencies in surgical, radiotherapy, oncology and terminally-ill patients 14: Psychiatric emergencies in obstetrics and gynaecology 15: Psychiatric emergencies in children and adolescents 16: Psychiatric emergencies in people with learning disabilities 17: Emergencies in old-age psychiatry 18: Psychiatric emergencies in primary care 19: Difficult patients and difficult situations 20: Assertive outreach, crisis resolution and intensive home treatment, and early intervention services 21: Emergencies in forensic psychiatry 22: Mental health legislation relevant to emergencies in psychiatry
