Washington Psychiatric Emergency Guide

Author: (USA) Garcia K.S.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book serves as a quick reference for psychiatry consultation and emergency treatment for inpatients, providing doctors with psychiatric services. The chapters compile concise content on common psychiatric clinical management issues encountered in medical practice. The "Guide" particularly emphasizes practical advice on how to obtain clinical data, how to derive possible differential diagnoses, how to make the final diagnostic judgment among several options, and how to complete medical records both concisely and comprehensively. In the sections describing the clinical manifestations, differential diagnoses, and treatment measures of various mental disorders, there are also several special tips interspersed, such as typical hints, emergency response procedures, and classic annotations. Typical hints provide standardized methods for examining patients with specific clinical problems and offer expert advice on how to structure questions. Emergency response procedures briefly introduce clinical protocols for emergency treatment.