A Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty member and two former faculty colleagues are co-editors of the new book, “Perioperative Psychiatry – A Guide to Behavioral Healthcare for the Surgical Patient.”
Paula Zimbrean, MD, FAPA, FACLP, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, is the first editor of the book, which provides a comprehensive review of mental health topics for pre- and postsurgical patients.
Her co-editors were former Yale faculty members Mark A. Oldham, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center, and Hochang Benjamin Lee, MD, John Romano Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center.
Current Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty who contributed to the book were Drs. Maya Prabhu, Teofilo Matos, Dwain Fehon, Raymone Shenouda, and Pochu Ho. Dr. Nora Proops, a third-year psychiatry resident, also contributed.
The book includes writing from the following former psychiatry trainees: Drs. Walter Piddoubny, Andres Caro, Sahil Munjal, and Amelia Swanson. Contributing from the Yale Department of Anesthesiology was Dr. Dana Oprea and former faculty member Dr. Paula Trigo-Blanco.
The book is the result of years of close collaboration between the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Psychological Medicine section and various surgical services at Yale New Haven Hospital to provide comprehensive mental health assistance to patients undergoing surgery.
The first half of the book includes chapters on pain management, psychopharmacological management or legal aspects of informed consent. The second section highlights various subspecialties, including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, organ transplantation, plastic surgery and bariatric surgery. Each chapter addresses preoperative psychiatric risk factors, evaluations, impact, and management recommendations for prevention and treatment of the most common psychiatric complications.
The editors believe the book will be a resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, surgeons, trainees, nurses, social workers, and all medical professionals concerned with the behavioral health of surgical patients.