Editor: Dr Kevin Nicholls – Independent Consultant Psychiatrist, Welshpool, Powys (Wales).He has held NHS consultant psychiatrist posts in Telford from 1998 and Montgomeryshire from 2005. Since retiring in 2012 he has undertaken locum work for the NHS, the private sector and the Ministry of Defence. He specialises in locum and court reports/expert witness work and his current employment is for the services veterans’ charity Combat Stress.

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• 1. Assessment of suicide risk; 2. Violence and aggression; 3. Management of substance misuse emergencies; 4. Psychiatric emergencies that involve alcohol; 5. Psychotic emergency presentations; 6. Psychotropics - acute side-effects; 7. Emergencies in child and adolescent psychiatry; 8. Psychiatric intensive care; 9. Emergency ECT; 10. 'Safeguarding' and psychiatric emergencies; 11. The immediate response to life-threatening medical emergencies within a mental health unit; 12. Emergencies in learning disability psychiatry; 13. Emergencies in older persons' psychiatry; 14. Perinatal psychiatric emergencies; 15. Civilian and military psychological trauma; 16. Liaison psychiatry emergencies; 17. Psychiatric emergencies in deaf people; 18. Mental health law and emergencies; 19. Poisoning - aspects of assessment and pre-hospital management.

Editor: Dr Kevin Nicholls – Independent Consultant Psychiatrist, Welshpool, Powys (Wales).He has held NHS consultant psychiatrist posts in Telford from 1998 and Montgomeryshire from 2005. Since retiring in 2012 he has undertaken locum work for the NHS, the private sector and the Ministry of Defence. He specialises in locum and court reports/expert witness work and his current employment is for the services veterans’ charity Combat Stress.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Assessment of suicide risk; 2. Violence and aggression; 3. Management of substance misuse emergencies; 4. Psychiatric emergencies that involve alcohol; 5. Psychotic emergency presentations; 6. Psychotropics - acute side-effects; 7. Emergencies in child and adolescent psychiatry; 8. Psychiatric intensive care; 9. Emergency ECT; 10. 'Safeguarding' and psychiatric emergencies; 11. The immediate response to life-threatening medical emergencies within a mental health unit; 12. Emergencies in learning disability psychiatry; 13. Emergencies in older persons' psychiatry; 14. Perinatal psychiatric emergencies; 15. Civilian and military psychological trauma; 16. Liaison psychiatry emergencies; 17. Psychiatric emergencies in deaf people; 18. Mental health law and emergencies; 19. Poisoning - aspects of assessment and pre-hospital management.