Title: Describe the assessment and management of patients displaying psychotic behaviors or signs of other psychiatric disorders.
Course: Emergency Medical Technician II (14055-II) > Section: Managing Medical Emergencies

Description should include

- the ways to recognize behaviors that pose a risk to the EMT, patient, or others, including the risk of suicide
- the basic principles of the mental health system
- an explanation of acute psychosis
- an explanation of agitated delirium.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What behaviors can indicate that a patient could be dangerous to the EMT, self, or others?
- What are the two basic categories that a physician uses for diagnosing a psychiatric disorder?
- When is it appropriate to restrain a patient?