Main description:

This volume provides an "on-the-go" guide to the most common behavioral emergencies a physician may encounter. Each chapter represents a disease state or symptom cluster and concisely summarizes the disease state, provides background, symptoms and signs, differential diagnoses, and immediate and long-term treatment options. All chapters conclude with a diagnosis or treatment algorithm or another easy-to-use visual tool. Chapters named after a specific disease state or symptom cluster, arranged alphabetically for use in the field. The text begins with chapters covering patient evaluation: getting a good history, suicide risk assessment, physical exam, and when and how to use studies. Written by experts in psychiatry and emergency medicine, this text is the first to consider both medical perspectives in a concise guide.Quick Guide to Psychiatric Emergencies is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, emergency medicine physicians, residents, nurses, and other medical professionals that handle behavioral emergencies on a regular basis.

Contents:

Section I Evaluation Of Patients.- 1 Medical & Psychiatric History.- 2 Physical Exam.- 3 Laboratory Testing and Studies.- 4 Suicide Risk Assessment.- Section II Psychiatric Illness.- 5 Agitation.- 6 Anxiety.- 7 Catatonia.- 8 Depression.- 9 Mania.- 10 Psychosis.- Section III Medical Disorders.- 11 Adrenal Crisis.- 12 Chronic Pain.- 13 Delirium.- 14 Dementia.- 15 Encephalitis.- 16 Head Injury.- 17 Hepatic Encephalopathy.- 18 Hypercalcemia.- 19 Hypercortisolism.- 20 Hypoglycemia.- 21 Hyponatremia.- 22 Hypothyroidism.- 23 Myxedema Coma.- 24 Non-Epileptic Seizures.- 25 Seizures.- 26 Thyrotoxicosis.- 27 Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome.- Section IV Substance Intoxication.- 28 Acute Intoxication General Principles.- 29 Amphetamine Intoxication.- 30 Cocaine Intoxication.- 31 Ethanol Intoxication (Alcohol).- 32 GHB Intoxication.- 33 Inhalant Intoxication.- 34 MDMA Intoxication.- 35 Opioid Intoxication.- 36 Psychedelic Intoxication.- Section V Withdrawal Syndromes.- 37 Acute Withdrawal General Principles.- 38 Alcohol Withdrawal.- 39 Amphetamine Withdrawal.- 40 Barbiturate Withdrawal.- 41 Benzodiazepine Withdrawal.- 42 Cannabis Withdrawal.- 43 Cocaine Withdrawal.- 44 Opioid Withdrawal.- Section VI Toxicologic Syndromes.- 45 Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome.- 46 Antimuscarinic Toxicity.- 47 Common Medications Which May Mimic Psychiatric Symptoms.- 48 Lithium Toxicity.- 49 Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.- 50 Salicylate Toxicity.- 51 Serotonin Syndrome.- 52 Steroid Psychosis.- 53 Valproic Acid Toxicity.