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.
