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ABC of Alcohol
Anne McCune (Edited by)
9781118544792, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2015
136 pages
27.9 x 21.8 x 0.8 cm, 0.413 kg
The misuse of alcohol presents both individual physical and psychological problems as well as wider social consequences. Alcohol misuse is a frequent cause of attendance in accident and emergency departments and an underlying factor in a range of long term and chronic conditions commonly treated and managed within primary care settings.
This expanded fifth edition includes new chapters on alcohol and the young person, alcohol related liver disease, neurological problems, alcohol and the older person, alcohol and cancer, and the alcohol nurse specialist. There is also improved coverage of the role of alcohol health workers, and guidance on the availability of voluntary alcohol services more generally, and the concluding resources chapter provides further guidance on how to access appropriate services. It incorporates current NICE guidelines, the Government’s Alcohol Strategy 2012, as well as case study scenarios and examples of best practice throughout.
From a new editor and a multidisciplinary contributor team, ABC of Alcohol is a practical guide for general practitioners, family physicians, practice nurses, primary healthcare professionals as well as for junior doctors, medical and nursing students.
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Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Alcohol use: Consumption and costs 1 2 Alcohol use: Society and politics 7 3 Alcohol in the body 12 4 Definitions 15 5 The nature of alcohol use disorders 19 6 The detection of alcohol use disorders 25 7 Medical problems 33 8 Problems in the Emergency Department – and their solutions 37 9 Alcohol and the young person 42 10 Alcohol and the older person 46 11 Alcohol and the liver 50 12 Surgical problems 56 13 Alcohol, maxillofacial trauma and prevention of personal violence 61 14 Neurological and neurosurgical complications of alcohol 64 15 Alcohol and cancer 69 16 Alcohol and the heart 74 17 Drug–alcohol interactions 79 18 Management of acute unplanned alcohol withdrawal 84 19 The role of alcohol care teams in district general hospitals 89 20 Management in primary care 95 21 Advice and counselling 99 22 Psychological treatment and relapse prevention 102 23 Alcohol and psychiatry 105 24 Other resources, and alcohol and the doctor 109 Index 000
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Subject Areas: Other branches of medicine [MM]
