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Though a recent thread devolved into several rules violations, I thought a good point came up from it.
The EMT curriculum devotes one chapter (in the Brady book at least) to dealing with psych emergencies. A good portion of it is centered around protecting yourself from danger and how to take down dangerous patients. Some lip service is paid towards the concept of verbal deescalation and that these patients are experiencing "real" health crises. But that's really it, and many of us do end up having a significant volume of psych calls, either transfers or otherwise.
As a disclaimer, I do not know what a typical medic class curriculum regarding this subject looks like, someone enlightenment me please?
So I ask this, do you feel that you are adequately trained to deal with patients experiencing significant psychiatric classes?
Do you have any insight on what might be lacking and what you would like to know more about?
Does your service offer additional training regarding psychiatric emergencies?
There's a poll for kicks as well.
The EMT curriculum devotes one chapter (in the Brady book at least) to dealing with psych emergencies. A good portion of it is centered around protecting yourself from danger and how to take down dangerous patients. Some lip service is paid towards the concept of verbal deescalation and that these patients are experiencing "real" health crises. But that's really it, and many of us do end up having a significant volume of psych calls, either transfers or otherwise.
As a disclaimer, I do not know what a typical medic class curriculum regarding this subject looks like, someone enlightenment me please?
So I ask this, do you feel that you are adequately trained to deal with patients experiencing significant psychiatric classes?
Do you have any insight on what might be lacking and what you would like to know more about?
Does your service offer additional training regarding psychiatric emergencies?
There's a poll for kicks as well.