Preface | |
Contributing Authors | |
The Emergency Psychiatric Evaluation, Including the Mental Status Examination | p. 3 |
Crisis Intervention: A General Approach | p. 12 |
Telephone Evaluations | p. 19 |
The Suicidal Patient | p. 21 |
The Violent Patient | p. 28 |
Acute Grief and Disaster Victims | p. 38 |
Treating the Family in the Emergency Department | p. 45 |
Child Psychiatric Emergencies | p. 53 |
Geriatric Emergencies | p. 60 |
Legal Issues | p. 75 |
Domestic Violence | p. 78 |
Child Abuse | p. 83 |
The Rape Victim | p. 91 |
Homelessness and Psychiatric Emergencies | p. 96 |
The Patient with Mental Retardation | p. 104 |
Psychiatric Emergency Repeaters | p. 110 |
Depression | p. 117 |
The Anxious Patient | p. 129 |
Acute Psychoses and Catatonia | p. 143 |
Mania | p. 158 |
Schizophrenic and Other Chronically Psychotic Patients in Crisis | p. 168 |
Borderline and Other Personality Disorders | p. 178 |
Agitation and Delirium | p. 197 |
Toxic Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications and Their Management | p. 204 |
Psychiatric Symptoms of Medical Illness and Drug Toxicity | p. 218 |
Neurologic Illness Mimicking Psychiatric Disorders | p. 248 |
Seizures | p. 256 |
Malingering, Factitious Illness, and Somatization | p. 265 |
Disruptive Medical Patients | p. 274 |
Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes | p. 279 |
Alcohol-Related Emergencies | p. 294 |
Acute Drug Overdoses | p. 304 |
App. I Neuroleptic Drugs | p. 325 |
App. II Antidepressant Drugs | p. 328 |
App. III Benzodiazepines | p. 330 |
App. IV Nonbenzodiazepine Sedative-Hypnotics | p. 331 |
App. V Anticonvulsant Drugs | p. 332 |
App. VI Antiparkinsonian Drugs | p. 333 |
App. VII Approximate Duration of Detectability of Drugs in Urine | p. 334 |
Index | p. 335 |
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