Behavioral emergencies for healthcare providers

This fully updated second edition focuses on mental illness, both globally and in terms of specific mental-health-related visits encountered in emergency department settings, and provides practical input from physicians experienced with adult emergency psychiatric patients. It covers the pre-hospital setting and advising on evidence-based practice; from collaborating with psychiatric colleagues to establishing a psychiatric service in your emergency department. Potential dilemmas when treating pregnant, geriatric or homeless patients with mental illness are discussed in detail, along with the more challenging behavioral diagnoses such as substance abuse, factitious and personality disorders, delirium, dementia, and PTSD. The new edition of Behavioral Emergencies for Healthcare Providers will be an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric and emergency department nurses, trainee and experienced emergency physicians, and other mental health workers.

The Magnitude of the Problem of Psychiatric Illness -- The Medical Screening Process for Psychiatric Patients Presenting Acutely to the Emergency Departments -- The Modern Emergency Psychiatry Interview -- General Management of the Poisoned Patient -- Drug Intoxication in the Emergency Department -- Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder in the Emergency Department -- Depression in the Emergency Department -- Discharge of the Emergency Patient with Risk Factors for Suicide: Psychiatric and Legal Perspectives -- Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders in the Emergency Department -- The Patient with Anxiety Disorders in the Emergency Department -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Emergency Department -- Psychosis in the Emergency Department -- Personality Disorders in the Emergency Department -- Malingering and Factitious Disorder in the Emergency Department -- The Patient with Delirium and Dementia -- Excited Delirium Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment -- Medical Illness in Psychiatric Disease -- Medical Mimics of Psychiatric Illnesses -- Acute Care of Eating Disorders -- When to Admit the Psychiatric Patient -- Verbal De-escalation in the Emergency Department -- Peer Mentors in the…