Book contents
- Emergency Psychiatry
- Emergency Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Chapter 1 Assessment and general approach
- Chapter 2 Management of agitation and violence
- Chapter 3 Suicide assessments
- Chapter 4 Managing substance abuse in the acute setting
- Chapter 5 Psychosis
- Chapter 6 The delirious patient
- Chapter 7 The anxious patient
- Chapter 8 Mood disorders
- Chapter 9 Personality disorders
- Chapter 10 Legal issues in the care of psychiatric patients in the emergency department
- Chapter 11 Geriatric psychiatry
- Chapter 12 Issues in pediatric psychiatric emergency care
- Chapter 13 The evaluation of intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Chapter 14 Emergency management of eating disorders
- Chapter 15 The acute management of patients with psychiatric complications of chronic illness or chronic pain
- Chapter 16 Death and dying
- Chapter 17 The emergency management of women with psychiatric illness
- Chapter 18 The impact of culture on the acute management of psychiatric illness
- Chapter 19 Understanding the psychology of difficult patients
- Appendix:Dose recommendations for psychiatric medications commonly seen in the ED setting
- Index
Chapter 6 - The delirious patient
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Emergency Psychiatry
- Emergency Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Chapter 1 Assessment and general approach
- Chapter 2 Management of agitation and violence
- Chapter 3 Suicide assessments
- Chapter 4 Managing substance abuse in the acute setting
- Chapter 5 Psychosis
- Chapter 6 The delirious patient
- Chapter 7 The anxious patient
- Chapter 8 Mood disorders
- Chapter 9 Personality disorders
- Chapter 10 Legal issues in the care of psychiatric patients in the emergency department
- Chapter 11 Geriatric psychiatry
- Chapter 12 Issues in pediatric psychiatric emergency care
- Chapter 13 The evaluation of intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Chapter 14 Emergency management of eating disorders
- Chapter 15 The acute management of patients with psychiatric complications of chronic illness or chronic pain
- Chapter 16 Death and dying
- Chapter 17 The emergency management of women with psychiatric illness
- Chapter 18 The impact of culture on the acute management of psychiatric illness
- Chapter 19 Understanding the psychology of difficult patients
- Appendix:Dose recommendations for psychiatric medications commonly seen in the ED setting
- Index
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- Emergency Psychiatry , pp. 94 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013