This Handbook is an indispensable guide for the multidisciplinary management of eating
disorders. It discusses a broad range of issues: managing high-risk patients the challenges of
inserting feeding tubes addressing nutritional aspects and dealing with additional disorders
which might complicate matters such as diabetes coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis. It
discusses fertility pregnancy and eating disorders in children and adolescents as well as
addressing the needs of families. Chapters contain key checklists and flow diagrams. Abundant
pictures and conversations coloured diagrams charts maps and boxes support readers' varying
learning styles and assist retention of key points. Vignettes taken from real (but strenuously
anonymised) cases appeal to clinicians' preference for case-based learning. The book also
functions as a practical manual of 'What to do - and what NOT to do' with practical scenarios.
In the acute situation clinicians will be able to go directly to the relevant chapter to guide
the team through the 'when where how why and with whom' of assessing and managing patients
with eating disorders. The book is primarily aimed at postgraduate physicians managing patients
with Eating disorders on Gastrointestinal Endocrine or general medical wards and those who
seek to deepen their expertise as they sit higher professional examinations. It is of interest
to both medical and psychiatric clinicians as well as useful to nursing and multidisciplinary
staff who want to develop a compassionate understanding of the true pain driving their
patients' behaviours.
