Title: Describe the assessment and management of patients displaying psychiatric or behavioral emergencies.
Course: Emergency Medical Technician II (14055-II) > Section: Managing Medical Emergencies

Description should include

- basic principles of the mental health system
- patterns of violence, abuse and neglect
- acute psychosis
- suicide ideation
- excited delirium
- anxiety
- depression
- medical fear
- substance use disorder
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- other psychiatric/behavioral disorders to be determined locally.

Description should include psychosocial aspects of age-related assessment and treatment modifications for the major or common diseases and/or emergencies associated with pediatric and geriatric patients.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What behaviors can indicate that a patient could be dangerous to the EMT, themselves, 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?