Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG)

Acute Psychiatric Emergencies

Herausgeber: Mackway-Jones, Kevin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Advanced Life Support Group
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 269mm x 211mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781119501060
• ISBN-10: 1119501067
• Artikelnr.: 58025585

Autorenporträt

Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) improves outcomes for people in life-threatening situations, anywhere along the healthcare pathway, anywhere in the world. ALSG is a leading medical education charity and have delivered advanced life support training to over 225,000 clinicians in 44 countries, across 5 continents, for over 25 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Working group vi
Contributors viii
Foreword ix
Preface and acknowledgements xi
Contact details and website information xii
How to use your textbook xiii
1 Structured approach to acute psychiatric emergencies 1
2 Primary unified assessment and immediate psychiatric management 5
3 Secondary physical and psychosocial assessment 13
4 The patient who has harmed themselves 19
5 The apparently drunk patient 37
6 The patient behaving strangely 51
7 The acutely confused patient 63
8 The aggressive patient 75
9 Legal aspects of emergency psychiatry 91
10 Human factors 97
11 The patient experience 107
Index 111