How to Give Medication to a Dangerously Agitated Patient

No one has really given us the safest way to give these patients I am injections when they're flammelling about. You kind of just have to sneak in there at the right body part, and hope that at that exact moment the patient doesn't flail or thrust out their leg or arm. Do you have any tips for that, Rup? So the first element in tranquilizing a dangerously agitated, severely agitated patient is to approach that patient with adequate force. It should never be the case that someone is being held down with a lot of force while someone else, a nurse or someone else is trying to get a line on that patient. That's time that's much better spent watching