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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child

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There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. Government. NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Government.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

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When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. Government. However, medications can be adjuncts to non-pharmacologic means to help keep agitated children safe from harm.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Government. Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question?

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

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Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Government. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes.

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Right Relationships in the Real World

Doctor Rachel

Which means that I offer my patients a broad toolbox of Western medicine, counselling, herbal and nutritional medicine, functional medicine, ancient traditions (Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Shamanic traditions) and spiritual considerations when helping them find health. Compulsively comprehensive. I love my work.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. So I felt like over all these years I have learned so much from my patients and from the science, that it should be out there in one place where people can easily access it and help themselves.

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