Chapter 23: Behavioral Health Emergencies Flashcards
The basic activities of a person usually accomplishes during a normal day, such as eating, dressing, and bathing.
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
A change in the way a person thinks and behaves that may signal disease in the central nervous system or elsewhere in the body.
Altered Mental Status
How a person functions or acts in response to their environment.
Behavior
The point at which a person’s reactions to events interfere with activities of daily living; this becomes a psychiatric emergency when it causes a major life interruption, such as a attempted suicide.
Behavioral Crisis
A persistent mood of sadness, despair, and discouragement; may be a symptom of many different mental and physical disorders, or it may be a disorder on its own.
Depression
A serious behavioral condition in which a person exhibits agitated behavior combined with disorientation, hallucinations, or delusions.
Excited Delirium
An emergency in which abnormal behavior threatens a person’s own health and safety or the health and safety of another person.
Behavioral Health Emergency
A disorder in which there is no known physiologic reason for the abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system.
Functional Disorder
Temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain, caused by disturbance in the physical or physiologic functioning of brain tissue.
Organic Brain Syndrome
Restriction of chest wall movements and/or airway obstruction; can rapidly lead to death.
Positional Asphyxia
A delayed reaction to a prior incident. Often the result of one or more conditions concerning the incident, and may relate to an incident that involved physical harm or the threat of physical harm.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
An illness with psychological or behavioral symptoms and/or impairment in functioning caused by a social, psychological, genetic, physical, chemical, or biologic disturbance.
Psychiatric Disorder
A mental disorder characterized by the loss of contact with reality.
Psychosis
A complex, difficult-to-identify mental disorder whose onset tyically occurs during early adulthood. Symptoms typically become more prominent over time and include delusions, hallucinations, a lack of interest in pleasure, and erratic speech.
Schizophrenia
What two risk management tools should be employed when responding to a behavioral health emergency?
What should a responder not do?
What two decision making filters should be used when caring for a patient having a behavioral crisis?
Outline treatment principles for behavioral health emergencies.
Signs/Symptoms of PTSD
List red flags a rescuer should look out for when responding to a behavioral health emergency.
ALGEE
Signs/Symptoms of Eating Disorders
Signs/Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Signs/Symptoms of Depression
Signs/Symptoms of Schizophrenia
List the risk factors for suicide.
