Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry (eBook, PDF)

Optimum Care, Emerging Limitations, and Realistic Goals
Redaktion: Fenn, Howard H.; Bourgeois, James A.; Hategan, Ana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by experts in the field

Offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental healthcare for the aging patient

Includes practical guidelines to prevent premature release and remission

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 415
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030104016
• Artikelnr.: 56951379

Autorenporträt

Howard H. Fenn, MD Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Stanford, California Attending physician Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California   Ana Hategan, MD Associate Clinical Professor Geriatric Psychiatrist Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences McMaster University Hamilton, ON Canada   James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD Chair, Department of Psychiatry Baylor Scott & White Health, Central Texas Division Clinical Professor, College of Medicine Texas A&M University Health Science Center 2401 South 31st Street Temple TX 76508 Professor Emeritus Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Inhaltsangabe

Essential medical work-up and rule-outs.- Neuropsychological assessment.- Pharmacological overview in geriatrics: pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, laboratory.- Interdisciplinary roles and interface.- Legal Aspects of Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry.- Major Neurocognitive Disorder with Behavioral Disturbance.- Acute medical events: falls, seizures, CVAs, urinary retention, cardiac events, hypotension, SIADH, dehydration, infection.- Suicide in the geriatric population: risk factors, identification, and management.- Sleep in Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients.- Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient: Acute Treatment, Detoxification, Withdrawal.- Psychiatric symptoms co-morbid with neurological syndromes.- Delirium: risk factors, contributors, identification, work-up, and treatment.- Involuntary treatment: medications, forced feeding, restraints, prevention of wandering.- Pain management.- Special syndromes: Serotonin Syndrome (SS), Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), and Catatonia.- Neuromodulation interventions: ECT, rTMS: work-up, preparation and post-treatment care + ketamine in inpatient psychiatry.- Medication strategies: Switching, tapering, cross-over, overmedication, drug-drug interactions, discontinuation syndromes.- Psychotherapies and non-pharmacological interventions.- Medical nursing care and communication barrier.- Telemedicine and IT --use of digital technology on inpatient units.- Placement, coordination, follow-up.

Rezensionen

"The book is written for providers across all specialties who care for older adults with psychiatric illness in the inpatient setting, and the book is well suited for most of them." (Jessica M O'Mara, Doody's Book Reviews, December 7, 2019)