Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Optimum Care, Emerging Limitations, and Realistic Goals
This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging challenges presented by an aging population worldwide. The text acknowledges that as the geriatric demographic grows, limited resources and infrastructures demand quality protocols to deliver inpatient geriat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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