Ch 27 Behavioral and Psychiatric Emergencies and Suicide

Question 1

The manner in which a person acts

Answer 1

Behavior

Question 2

When a patient’s behavior is not typical for the situation; when the patient’s behavior is unacceptable or intolerable to the patient, the patient’s family, or the community; or when a patient may harm self or others

Answer 2

Behavioral emergency

Question 3

Chemicals within the body that transmit a message in the brain from the distal end of one neuron to the proximal end of the next neuron

Answer 3

Neurotransmitters

Question 4

A chronic mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

Answer 4

Schizophrenia

Question 5

Bizarre and/or aggressive behavior, shouting, paranoia, panic, violence toward others, insensitivity to pain, unexpected physical strength, and hyperthermia, usually associated with cocaine or amphetamine use

Answer 5

Excited delirium (aka agitated delirium)

Question 6

Inadequate breathing or respiratory arrest caused by a body position that restricts breathing

Answer 6

Positional asphyxia