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Inpatient geriatric psychiatry : optimum care, emerging limitations, and realistic goals / Howard H. Fenn, Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (424 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783030104016
  • 303010401X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 618.97689 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.A5
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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