Acute Psychiatric Emergencies

Contributors to second edition ix

Preface to second edition x

Preface to first edition xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Contact details and website information xiv

How to use your textbook xv

Part 1 1

1 Structured approach to acute psychiatric emergencies 3

2 Primary unified assessment and immediate psychiatric management 9

3 Secondary physical and psychosocial assessment 23

4 Mental state examination 29

5 Commonly encountered psychiatric presentations 37

Part 2 41

6 The patient who has harmed themselves 43

7 Organic causes for behavioural disturbances 67

8 The apparently intoxicated patient 81

9 The acutely confused patient 93

10 The aggressive patient 109

11 Special considerations 131

Part 3 143

12 Legal aspects of emergency psychiatry 145

13 Getting it right: non- technical skills 153

14 The patient experience 169

Working group for second edition 173

Working group for first edition 174

Contributors to first edition 176

References and further reading 177

Index 183

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• Enfermagem psiquiátrica
• Medicina de acidentes e urgências
• Psiquiatria

Emergency medicine; mental health; mental distress; alcoholism; medical mimics; psychiatric presentation; medical presentation; emergency department; emergency nursing; mental health nursing; eating disorders; pediatric health