Behavioral Emergencies
Normal behavior is basically classified as whatever this group accepts as normal.
What is society?
Bob hasn't eaten in a bit and now he's acting altered. This is most likely his cause for his AMS.
What is hypoglycemia?
Behavioral emergencies can be dangerous to the first responder, especially if they don't do this at the beginning of each call.
What is assess the scene(size-up)?
This part of the patient assessment can be biggest when figuring out why this patient is struggling.
What is their history?
This acute or chronic infection of the upper female reproductive organs has chief complaints of pelvic pain and fever.
What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease(PID)?
When someone no longer responds appropriately to their environment are said to be having this type of emergency.
What is psychological or psychiatric?
Someone working the military or public service job can experience this type of anxiety disorder at any time.
What is PTSD?
Patient success rate depends on how much of this we are willing to give up.
What is time on scene?
Establishing this at the beginning will give us an idea of what direction the patient's mental status is heading.
What is their baseline?
This deadly condition most often happens in the fallopian tube.
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
This is defined as what you can see of a person's response to their environment.
What is behavior?
Grandma has a UTI and now has an altered mental status. This is most likely the cause for her AMS.
What is an infection or sepsis?
List a few of the ways we can be safe when treating altered patients.
What are keep spacing from patient, keep the door behind you, assess the scene, have a definitive plan of action, don't fight the patient?
This term coins someone who is in a state of delusion and out of touch with reality.
What is psychosis?
These fluid filled sacs can attach to a female's internal testes.
What are ovarian cysts?
These are the two types of underlying causes of behavioral emergencies.
What are organic and functional?
Environmental exposures can mess with our brain chemistry, especially in these two extreme weather sicknesses.
We need to limit the amount of this around the patient when performing our assessment.
What is the number of people?
Prior to performing any procedure on a BH patient, we should do this...
What is explain what we are doing ahead of time?
The medical term miscarriage is often referred to as this.
What is a spontaneous abortion?
What are sudden illness, recent head trauma, seizure disorders, drugs and alcohol, overdose or withdrawal, and brain diseases(Alzheimer's and meningitis)
When doctors cannot pinpoint the exact cause of someone's behavioral change, they consider it this type of disorder.
What is functional disorder?
History, posture, vocal activity are all key warning signs that danger is coming from our patient, this is the last thing they'll do before attacking.
Vivid hallucinations are possible with someone going through this disorder.
What is agitated delirium?
Sexual assault victims may not appear in court up to 2 to 3 years after the event, we can help our patient best by doing this thoroughly.
What is documentation?