{"id":1192,"date":"2022-02-20T05:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T05:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2022-02-20T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T05:36:26","slug":"play-it-safe-with-psychiatric-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Play It Safe With Psychiatric Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Ensure the scene is safe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with psychiatric patients is that some of them could be dangerous.   Ensuring enough police support are on scene will discourage a patient from potentially acting violently to the ambulance crew.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Speak in a respectful and non threatening manner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, the ambulance has arrived to the patient with the intent of helping.  Being aggressive or disrespectful will not help the patient.  Some basic rules of thumbs when talking to a psychiatric patient (or any patient for that matter) are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Acknowledge the patient is emotionally upset and that EMS is here to help.<\/li><li>The ambulance crew should inform the patient about what they are doing or intend to do.<\/li><li>Ask questions in a calm and reassuring voice.<\/li><li>Maintain a comfortable distance.<\/li><li>Do not make quick moves.<\/li><li>Respond honestly to the patient&#8217;s questions.<\/li><li>Never threaten, challenge, or argue with disturbed patients.<\/li><li>Tell the truth when the patient asks a question.<\/li><li>Do not play along with the patient&#8217;s visual or auditory disturbances.<\/li><li>Involve trusted family members and friends<\/li><li>Be prepared to be on scene for an extended period of time and always remain with the patient.<\/li><li>Avoid unnecessary physical contact.  Ensure adequate manpower are on scene.<\/li><li>Use eye contact.<\/li><li>Avoid threatening postures.<\/li><li>Be calm, patient, and respectful.<\/li><li>Lower background stimuli (turn off television, music, lower radio volume, etc.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>If the patient needs to be restrained, make sure there are plenty of rescuers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"981\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/restraints.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1193\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/restraints.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?attachment_id=1193\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/restraints.png 720w, https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/restraints-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensure the scene is safe The problem with psychiatric patients is that some of them could be dangerous. Ensuring enough police support are on scene will discourage a patient from potentially acting violently to the ambulance crew. Speak in a respectful and non threatening manner Remember, the ambulance has arrived to the patient with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}