Psychiatric Emergencies — Advanced Reference Manual

Psychiatry · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Systematic approach to acute behavioral and psychopathological decompensations, exhaustive organic differentiation, emergency pharmacology and legal frameworks for involuntary commitment.

What it covers

1. Psychiatric Emergencies
2. Concept, Triage and Medical Clearance
3. · Triage and Prioritization (Structured Systems)
4. · Organicity Screening: The Medical Clearance Process
5. · Analytical and Image Screening Algorithm
6. Approach to the Agitated or Violent Patient
7. · Pathophysiology of Behavioral Agitation
8. · Verbal De-escalation Strategies
9. · Mechanical or Physical Safety Containment
10. · Pharmacological Treatment of APM (Rapid Sedation)
11. Suicidal and Self-Harmful Behavior
12. · Neurobiology and Suicide Risk Factors
13. · Clinical Risk Assessment Scales
14. · Clinical Interview Techniques
15. Crisis of Anguish and Panic
16. · Panic Pathophysiology and Hyperventilation
17. · Organic Differential Diagnosis (Vital Emergency Ruleout)
18. · Treatment of Acute Panic Crisis
19. Acute Psychosis and Decompensated Schizophrenia
20. · Pathophysiology of Psychotic Break
21. · Differentiation between Organic and Psychiatric Psychosis
22. · Pharmacological Treatment of Acute Psychotic Break
23. Acute Mania and Severe Major Depression
24. · Acute Decompensated Mania (Manic Crisis)
25. · Severe Major Depression with Psychotic Symptoms / Psychomotor Inhibition
26. Substances, Withdrawal and Delirium Tremens
27. · Delirium Tremens (The Emergence of Alcoholic Withdrawal)
28. · Intoxication and Withdrawal from Sympathomimetics and Opioids
29. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome vs. Serotonergic
30. · Comparative Physiopathology
31. · Clinical Differential Diagnosis Table
32. · Medical Treatment of NMS
33. · Medical Treatment of Serotonin Syndrome
34. Delirium (Acute Confusional Syndrome)
35. · Pathophysiology of Delirium
36. · Clinical Subtypes of Delirium
37. · Diagnostic Screening with the CAM Method (Confusion Assessment Method)
38. · Clinical and Non-Pharmacological Management (The Cornerstone)
39. · Pharmacological Treatment of Agitated Delirium
40. Catatonia: Recognition and Emergency Management
41. · Pathophysiology of Catatonia
42. · Highly Specific Semiological Clinical Signs
43. · Malignant Catatonia (An Extreme Medical Emergency)
44. Child-Youth Psychiatric Emergencies and Eating Behavior
45. · Evolutionary Neurobiology and Crisis in Adolescents
46. · Non-Suicidal Self-Harm (ALNS)
47. · Anorexia Nervosa: Criteria for Emergency Medical Admission
48. Legal, Ethical and Security Aspects
49. · Urgent Involuntary Internment (e.g., Art. 763 LEC of Spain)
50. · Judicial Notification Protocol for Involuntary Internment
51. · Deontology and Consent in Emergency Situations
52. · Structure of the Psychiatric Emergencies Report