Clinical manual of emergency psychiatry
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Michelle B Riba; Divy Ravindranath
- ناشر : Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9781585629411
Description
Approach to psychiatric emergencies -- The suicidal patient -- Violence risk assessment -- The catatonic patient -- Depression, euphoria, and anger in the emergency department -- The psychotic patient -- The anxious patient -- The cognitively impaired patient -- Substance-related psychiatric emergencies -- Child and adolescent emergency psychiatry -- Seclusion and restraint in emergency settings -- Legal and ethical issues in emergency psychiatry -- Disposition and resource options -- Getting from the clinic to the emergency department -- Supervision of trainees in the psychiatric emergency service -- Working with medical students in psychiatric emergency settings.
Clinical Manual of Emergency Psychiatry is designed to help medical students, residents, and clinical faculty chart the appropriate course of treatment in a setting where an incorrect assessment can have life-and-death implications. It covers those topics that are generally the most important and practical in any busy psychiatric emergency department.
