Psychiatric Emergencies

by Stephen Merson and David Baldwin

Book Overview

An accessible and authoritative guide to the immediate management of the full range of psychiatric problems presented in emergency departments, this handbook is arranged by symptoms rather than diagnoses. As such it offers the reader a systematic guide through asessment and diagnosis,immediate investigations and management, and treatment as far as transferral to specialist departments.The authors include an introductory section on eliciting and recording...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192624784
• ISBN13: 9780192624789
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.8"