Author: Scott L. Zeller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714812X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A practical guide to the origins and treatment options for agitation, a common symptom of psychiatric and neurologic disorders.
The Diagnosis and Management of Agitation
Author: Scott L. Zeller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714812X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A practical guide to the origins and treatment options for agitation, a common symptom of psychiatric and neurologic disorders.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714812X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A practical guide to the origins and treatment options for agitation, a common symptom of psychiatric and neurologic disorders.
Agitation in Patients with Dementia
Author: Donald P. Hay
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Text identifies the multiple types of agitation in dementia patients. Focuses on the underlying causes and the various methods for management. Also includes discussions on the epidemiology and neurochemistry of agitation, assessment techniques, and legal and ethical issues.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Text identifies the multiple types of agitation in dementia patients. Focuses on the underlying causes and the various methods for management. Also includes discussions on the epidemiology and neurochemistry of agitation, assessment techniques, and legal and ethical issues.
Quick Guide to Psychiatric Emergencies
Author: Kimberly D. Nordstrom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319582607
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book 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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319582607
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book 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.
The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients With Dementia
Author: American Psychiatric Association
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN: 0890426775
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The guideline offers clear, concise, and actionable recommendation statements to help clinicians to incorporate recommendations into clinical practice, with the goal of improving quality of care. Each recommendation is given a rating that reflects the level of confidence that potential benefits of an intervention outweigh potential harms.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN: 0890426775
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The guideline offers clear, concise, and actionable recommendation statements to help clinicians to incorporate recommendations into clinical practice, with the goal of improving quality of care. Each recommendation is given a rating that reflects the level of confidence that potential benefits of an intervention outweigh potential harms.
Emergency Psychiatry
Author: Rachel L. Glick
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781768733
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Written and edited by leading emergency psychiatrists, this is the first comprehensive text devoted to emergency psychiatry. The book blends the authors' clinical experience with evidence-based information, expert opinions, and American Psychiatric Association guidelines for emergency psychiatry. Case studies are used throughout to reinforce key clinical points. This text brings together relevant principles from many psychiatric subspecialties—community, consultation/liaison, psychotherapy, substance abuse, psychopharmacology, disaster, child, geriatric, administrative, forensic—as well as from emergency medicine, psychology, law, medical ethics, and public health policy. The emerging field of disaster psychiatry is also addressed. A companion Website offers instant access to the fully searchable text. (www.glickemergencypsychiatry.com)
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781768733
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Written and edited by leading emergency psychiatrists, this is the first comprehensive text devoted to emergency psychiatry. The book blends the authors' clinical experience with evidence-based information, expert opinions, and American Psychiatric Association guidelines for emergency psychiatry. Case studies are used throughout to reinforce key clinical points. This text brings together relevant principles from many psychiatric subspecialties—community, consultation/liaison, psychotherapy, substance abuse, psychopharmacology, disaster, child, geriatric, administrative, forensic—as well as from emergency medicine, psychology, law, medical ethics, and public health policy. The emerging field of disaster psychiatry is also addressed. A companion Website offers instant access to the fully searchable text. (www.glickemergencypsychiatry.com)
Behavioral Emergencies for the Emergency Physician
Author: Leslie S. Zun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701848X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This comprehensive, go-to volume features cutting edge discussion of the emergency department management of mental health patients.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701848X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This comprehensive, go-to volume features cutting edge discussion of the emergency department management of mental health patients.
Pharmacological Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Health Care
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241547693
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241547693
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.
Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment
Author: John Mills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Author: Webb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198855435
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1961
Book Description
Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely this text takes a problem-orientated approach providing a key resource for daily clinical issues in the intensive care unit. The text is organized into short topics allowing readers to rapidly access authoritative information on specific clinical problems. Each topic refers to basic physiological principles and provides up-to-date treatment advice supported by references to the most vital literature. Where international differences exist in clinical practice, authors cover alternative views. Key messages summarise each topic in order to aid quick review and decision making. Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Careprovides an up-to-date reference that is relevant for intensive care units and emergency departments globally. This volume is the definitive text for all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who take care of critically ill patients.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198855435
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1961
Book Description
Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely this text takes a problem-orientated approach providing a key resource for daily clinical issues in the intensive care unit. The text is organized into short topics allowing readers to rapidly access authoritative information on specific clinical problems. Each topic refers to basic physiological principles and provides up-to-date treatment advice supported by references to the most vital literature. Where international differences exist in clinical practice, authors cover alternative views. Key messages summarise each topic in order to aid quick review and decision making. Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Careprovides an up-to-date reference that is relevant for intensive care units and emergency departments globally. This volume is the definitive text for all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who take care of critically ill patients.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder in Adults
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904671428
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
This guideline is an update of NICEs previous guidance on generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). It reviews the evidence for low- and high-intensity psychological interventions and drug treatments, and also gives an insight into the experience of care of people with GAD, which is a common mental health problem and often co-occurs with other anxiety and depressive disorders. RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904671428
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
This guideline is an update of NICEs previous guidance on generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). It reviews the evidence for low- and high-intensity psychological interventions and drug treatments, and also gives an insight into the experience of care of people with GAD, which is a common mental health problem and often co-occurs with other anxiety and depressive disorders. RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities.