Overview
- The only book dedicated to the emergency care of both substance use and psychiatric disorders
- Includes comprehensive assessment and treatment approaches to challenging populations using substances in the emergency department
- Written by experts in the field
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Psychiatry (CCPSY)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Management of Acute Substance Use Disorders
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Front Matter
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Management of Substance-Induced and Co-occurring Disorders
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book fills a gap in the existing medical literature by providing a best-practice approach to the evaluation and acute treatment of patients presenting for emergency care with identifiable substance use and/or co-occurring psychiatric disorders. As the first interdisciplinary book to integrate psychiatric and emergency care, the text uniquely covers a myriad of serious medical conditions, acute mental status and dangerous behavioral abnormalities. The book focuses on guidelines that support emergency room physicians with little formal medical training in addiction medicine. The first section focuses on the diagnosis and management of substance-specific intoxication and withdrawal states, as well as common medical co-morbidities and disposition considerations. The book lends particular attention to the identification and stabilization of high risk medical conditions associated with each substance of abuse. The second section is psychiatrically focused, addressing the most common psychiatric symptoms and syndromes, their association with SUDs, an approach to differential diagnosis, and discussion of crucial treatment considerations for both safe ED management and post-ED disposition. A final section includes other pertinent topics, for example, the assessment of patient safety, responding to the medication-seeking patient, assessment and treatment of pregnant patients and working with adolescents and their families around substance use.
Substance Use and The Acute Patient is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature for both consulting psychiatrists, emergency medicine specialists, addiction medicine specialists, and all other medical professionals who provide care for these most complex and underserved patients.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
sabird@partners.org
Abigail L. Donovan M.D., Associate Director, Acute Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
aldonovan@partners.org
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Substance Use and the Acute Psychiatric Patient
Book Subtitle: Emergency Management
Editors: Abigail L. Donovan, Suzanne A. Bird
Series Title: Current Clinical Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23961-3
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23960-6Published: 25 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23961-3Published: 16 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2626-241X
Series E-ISSN: 2626-2398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Rehabilitation Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine