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Author:   Howard H. Fenn ,  Ana Hategan ,  James A. Bourgeois
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   1.127kg
ISBN:  

9783030104009

ISBN 10:   3030104001
Pages:   415
Publication Date:   24 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword 1—Dilip Jeste and Ellen Lee Foreword 2—Ira Glick   PREFACE by Editors—include paragraph on flow-charts/Acknowledgements OVERVIEW of INPATIENT GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY 1.      Essential medical work-up and rule-outs 2.      Neuropsychological assessment 3.      Pharmacological overview in geriatrics: pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, laboratory. 4.      Interdisciplinary roles and interface 5.      Legal Aspects of Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry PREVALENT PROBLEMS IN INPATIENT GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY 6.      Major Neurocognitive Disorder with Behavioral Disturbance 7.      Acute medical events: falls, seizures, CVAs, urinary retention, cardiac events, hypotension, SIADH, dehydration, infection. 8.      Suicide in the geriatric population: risk factors, identification, and management. 9.      Sleep in Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients 10.  Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient: Acute Treatment, Detoxification, Withdrawal 11.  Psychiatric symptoms co-morbid with neurological syndromes 12.  Delirium: risk factors, contributors, identification, work-up, and treatment. 13.  Involuntary treatment: medications, forced feeding, restraints, prevention of wandering.  14.  Pain management 15.  Special syndromes: Serotonin Syndrome (SS), Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), and  Catatonia 16.  Neuromodulation interventions: ECT, rTMS: work-up, preparation and post-treatment care + ketamine in inpatient psychiatry 17.  Medication strategies: Switching, tapering, cross-over, overmedication, drug-drug interactions, discontinuation syndromes 18.  Psychotherapies and non-pharmacological interventions     SPECIAL TOPICS 19.  Medical nursing care and communication barrier 20.  Telemedicine and IT --use of digital technology on inpatient units.  21.  Placement, coordination, follow-up. 

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The book is written for providers across all specialties who care for older adults with psychiatric illness in the inpatient setting, and the book is well suited for most of them. (Jessica M O'Mara, Doody's Book Reviews, December 7, 2019)

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Howard H. Fenn, MD Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Stanford, California Attending physician Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California   Ana Hategan, MD Associate Clinical Professor Geriatric Psychiatrist Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences McMaster University Hamilton, ON Canada   James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD Chair, Department of Psychiatry Baylor Scott & White Health, Central Texas Division Clinical Professor, College of Medicine Texas A&M University Health Science Center 2401 South 31st Street Temple TX 76508 Professor Emeritus Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

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