Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG): Acute Psychiatric Emergencies

Working group vi

Contributors viii

Foreword ix

Preface and acknowledgements xi

Contact details and website information xii

How to use your textbook xiii

1 Structured approach to acute psychiatric emergencies 1

2 Primary unified assessment and immediate psychiatric management 5

3 Secondary physical and psychosocial assessment 13

4 The patient who has harmed themselves 19

5 The apparently drunk patient 37

6 The patient behaving strangely 51

7 The acutely confused patient 63

8 The aggressive patient 75

9 Legal aspects of emergency psychiatry 91

10 Human factors 97

11 The patient experience 107

Index 111