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Acute Behavioural Disturbance; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

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Are You Observing From a Distance in Patients With Acute ABD?

The R.K.M. guidance says sustained non-compliance with police, ambulance staff or hospital staff is a sign of serious ABD. In your patient with severe ABD, it will be sustained, won't it? And that's the key thing. It won't be dropping in and out for the vast majority cases. If the patient engages with our attempts to de-escalate, that can also be a little indicator,. I think, as Simon said there, that actually this patient is aware of what's going on"

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