Substance Terminology
A chemical substance with a pH level of less than 7.0 that can cause severe burns.
What is: An Acid?
What is the name of a synthetic stimulant-type drug that produce effects that include paranoia, panic attacks, inappropriate sexual behavior, hallucinations and excited delirium.
What is: Bath Salts?
When you are assessing a patient who appears to be experiencing a behavioral emergency, you should follow these steps.
What is: Patient Assessment Sequence. Scene Size-up, Primary Assessment, History Taking, Secondary Assessment, Reassessment.
The first and most important step you can take in crisis management is done after you have completed your scene size-up and begin your primary assessment, being careful about the body language you are displaying, while trying to do this.
What is: Communicating with the patient?
Tension Building Phase, which is the longest; Explosive phase, Honeymoon or make-up phase are categorized under Domestic Violence and known as the Cycles of this.
What is: Abuse
Stimulants that produce a general mood elevation, improve task performance, suppress appetite, or prevent sleepiness.
What is: Amphetamines
This type of medication is used to relieve pain by reducing the intensity of pain signals reaching the brain.
What is: Opioids and Herorin?
A situation in which the patient exhibits abnormal behavior that is unacceptable or cannot be tolerated by the patient himself or herself or by family.
What is: What is Behavioral Emergency
Taking your time, remaining calm, reassuring the patient, using good eye contact, touching the patient if appropriate, talking in a calm, steady voice, demonstrating confidence, and not taking the patient's comment personally are all tips that may help you at the scene of this incident.
What is: A Behavioral Emergency
If you suspect elder abuse, child abuse, spousal abuse and or domestic partner abuse, you when you arrive on a scene, your first priority is to always.
What is: Maintain safety for yourself.
A severe, often fatal, complication of alcohol withdrawal that most commonly occurs 3 to 4 days after withdrawal or up to 10 days in some cases. Signs are restlessness, fever, sweating, confusion, disorientation, agitation hallucinations and convulsions.
What is: Delirium Tremens (DTs)
Some drug dealers are using an illegal version of this drug (a drug used to induce anesthesia), to increase the potency of heroin that has been diluted.
What is: Fentanyl?
This type of behavior is characterized by abnormal thought processes and/or the loss of contact with reality.
What is: Psychotic Behavior
Communication is important during behavioral emergencies. This technique means you rephrase a person's own words and thoughts and repeat them back.
What is: Restatement.
To maintain your personal safety for you and your crew, always take steps to plan this at scenes that may become dangerous.
What is: An Escape Route? (between you and the patient)
A complete unit for delivery of air to a rescuer who enters a contaminated area, contains a mask, regulator, and air supply.
What is: Self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)?
These drugs are chemicals that cause people to see things that are not there.
What is: Hallucinogens?
A state of emotional upset or turmoil, caused by a sudden disruptive event, physical illness, traumatic injury or death of a loved one.
What is: Situational Crisis?
This communication technique helps to focus a patient's attention on the immediate situation or crisis.
What is: Redirection
There are 4 types of Emotional Crisis: Attempted Suicide, Posttraumatic stress disorder, sexual assault and this situation.
What is: Death and Dying?
A colorless, odorless, tasteless, poisonous gas formed by incomplete combustion, such as in a fire.
What is: Carbon Monoxide
The technique of intentional inhalation of volatile chemicals that can reproduce a high resembling that of alcohol.
What is: Huffing
High-Anxiety or Emotional Shock, Denial, Anger and Remorse or Grief are the 4 stages of this situation.
What is: Situational Crisis?
The ability to sense someone else's emotions and to imagine what he or she might be thinking and feeling, which helps you understand the emotional or psychological trauma the patient is experiencing.
What is: Empathy
To avoid legal issues when dealing with Behavioral Patients, you should always seek assistance from law enforcement and this person.
What is: Medical Director