Inpatient geriatric psychiatry : optimum care, emerging limitations, and realistic goals /: optimum care, emerging limitations, and realistic goals. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Howard H. Fenn, Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, editors.
• Editors: Fenn, Howard H; Hategan, Ana; Bourgeois, James
• Contents: Part I: Foundations of inpatient geriatric psychiatry. Essential medical work-up and rule outs -- Neuropsychological assessment -- Pharmacological overview in geriatrics: pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, laboratory monitoring -- Interdisciplinary roles and interface -- Legal aspects of inpatient geriatric psychiatry -- Part II: Prevalent problems in inpatient geriatric psychiatry. Major neurocognitive disorder with behavioral disturbance (behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia--BPSD) -- Acute medical events: falls, seizures, CVAS, urinary retention, cardiac events, hypotension, SIADH, dehydration, and 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, and withdrawal -- Psychiatric symptoms comorbid with neurological syndromes -- Delirium: risk factors, contributors, identification, work-up, and treatment -- Involuntary interventions: medications, forced feeding, restraints, and prevention of wandering -- Pain management -- Special syndromes: serotonin syndrome, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and catatonia -- Neuromodulation interventions: ECT and RTMS – work-up, preparation, and posttreatment care + ketamine in inpatient psychiatry -- Medication strategies: switching, tapering, cross-over, overmedication, drug-drug interactions, and discontinuation syndromes -- Psychotherapies and non-pharmacological interventions -- Part III: Special topics. Medical nursing care and communication barriers -- Telemedicine and IT: use of digital technology on inpatient units -- Placement, coordination, and follow-up.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (424 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 618.97689; Geriatric psychiatry; Older people -- Hospital care; Psychiatric hospital care; Geriatric Psychiatry -- methods; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Hospitalization; Aged; Geriatric psychiatry; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030104016
• Related ISBNs: 303010401X; 9783030104009
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (R2 Digital Library, viewed August 29, 2019).
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