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Handbook of Psychiatric Emergencies

Course Description

The authoritative guide to managing psychiatric emergencies written specifically for health care practitioners
Handbook of Psychiatric Emergencies presents clear, detailed information that clinicians can use to identify psychiatric problems accurately, intervene safely, and complete the patient’s disposition appro­priately. The authors explore the psychiatric condi­tions most prevalent in emergency settings delirium, alcohol and drug emergencies, schizophrenia and mania, violent and suicidal behavior, depression, domestic abuse, and more. For each psychiatric problem, the handbook describes: pertinent mental status findings, physical findings, laboratory studies, and differential diagnoses interpersonal measures the clinician can take to defuse a potentially explosive situation drug treatments that may prove effective when interpersonal interventions alone fail to resolve the crisis educational interventions to help the patient and family prevent recurrences relevant medicolegal issues, such as confi­dentiality, competence, informed consent, civil commitment, and liability. Psychiatric emergencies can occur anytime, anywhere. This handy, fast-access guide can be used b y a nursing professional in any clinical setting. You will learn to evaluate a psychiatric problem with accuracy and speed, learn to stabilize the patient and carry out patient.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Medical Legal Considerations
  • Delirium
  • Alcohol Emergencies
  • Drug-Abuse Emergencies
  • Schizophrenia and Mania
  • The Violent Patient
  • The Self-Destructive Patient
  • Depression
  • The Anxious Patient
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Rape
  • Child And Adolescent Emergencies
  • The Elderly Patient
  • Difficult Situations
  • Psychotropic Drug Reactions