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California becomes first state to ban use of ‘excited delirium’ as cause of death | California | The Guardian

State prohibits the pseudoscientific diagnosis authorities have frequently cited to justify killings at hands of law enforcement — Read on amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/10/california-police-brutality-excited-delirium-ban-cause-death-newsom

ACEM – Lack of mental health beds in NT leads to ‘last resort’ ED practices.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine — Read on acem.org.au/News/March-2023/Lack-of-mental-health-beds-in-NT-leads-to-‘last-re

Aeromedical transfer of mental health patients in Western Australia

Therapeutics: Agitation in the ED

Acute agitation is a common presentation in the Emergency Department, with some studies citing that this accounts for 2.6% of total patient … Therapeutics: Agitation in the ED

Use of intramuscular ketamine by paramedics in the management of severely agitated patients – Bernard – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library

Use of intramuscular ketamine by paramedics in the management of severely agitated patients – Bernard – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library — Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1742-6723.13755

EOI: Medical Advisors in primary care and psychiatry – Ambulance Victoria

EOI: Medical Advisors in primary care and psychiatry – Ambulance Victoria — Read on http://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/

Chemical restraint and deaths in custody

‘Le Cong said at some point in the last three decades the use of midazolam shifted from being primarily a pre-anaesthetic to a drug for dealing with agitated patients’ https://t.co/fkJDv0gASO — Natisha Sands (@NatishaSands) March 6, 2018

Psychiatric aeromedical retrieval in 2017

Ketamine reduces the need for intubation in patients with acute severe mental illness and agitation requiring transport to definitive care: An observational study

Chemical restraint should not be lethal injection

Chemical restraint or lethal injection? @ketaminh writes in #MJAInSight … https://t.co/zOsIMou2Dn #deathsincustody #Indigenous pic.twitter.com/p5mSRtug68 — MJA (@theMJA) March 5, 2017

Suicide in first responders

Suicidal ideation, attempt, & completion rates in first responders (based off the data they can collect) #NAEMSP17 pic.twitter.com/1H6NLTSPmB — Joelle Donofrio, DO (@PEMEMS) January 26, 2017 Please remember to help your friendly first responder #NAEMSP17 #FOAMems #codegreen pic.twitter.com/LFIf7ZAdsL — Hawnwan Moy (@PECpodcast) January 26, 2017 Suicides outnumber LODD. @CodeGreenEMS #NAEMSP17 pic.twitter.com/C8Kneq701W — Jeff Jarvis (@DrJeffJarvis)Continue reading “Suicide in first responders”

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