Chemical sedation of excited delirium in the pre-hospital setting

A 30-year-old male presents to emergency medical services profoundly combative with a Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale of +4 after reported use of intravenous methamphetamines. A preliminary diagnosis of excited delirium syndrome is made based on the history obtained and the decision is made to che...

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Autor principal: Armour, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The College of Paramedics 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33456377
http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2020.12.4.4.34
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description A 30-year-old male presents to emergency medical services profoundly combative with a Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale of +4 after reported use of intravenous methamphetamines. A preliminary diagnosis of excited delirium syndrome is made based on the history obtained and the decision is made to chemically sedate the patient. While preparing for sedation, you wonder which pharmacological agent will produce the fastest and safest sedation in this patient population.
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spelling pubmed-77839052021-03-01 Chemical sedation of excited delirium in the pre-hospital setting Armour, Richard Br Paramed J BestBETs A 30-year-old male presents to emergency medical services profoundly combative with a Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale of +4 after reported use of intravenous methamphetamines. A preliminary diagnosis of excited delirium syndrome is made based on the history obtained and the decision is made to chemically sedate the patient. While preparing for sedation, you wonder which pharmacological agent will produce the fastest and safest sedation in this patient population. The College of Paramedics 2020-03-01 2020-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7783905/ /pubmed/33456377 http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2020.12.4.4.34 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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