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Psychiatric Emergency Prehospital:Incidence and Management ofAgitationin Valladolid (Spain)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

R. Rodriguez Calzada ,
M. Siesto Marcos ,
P. Rosetarisso ,
M. a. Suarez Fuentes ,
L. Delgadoalonso ,
M. Rodriguez Calzada ,
R. Rodriguez Calzada  and
E. Calzadaamorrortu
R. Rodriguez Calzada*
Affiliation:
Gerencia de Emergencias Castilla Y Leon, Prehospital Emergency Ume 1 Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
M. Siesto Marcos
Affiliation:
Valladolid University, Nursing Department, Valladolid, Spain
P. Rosetarisso
Affiliation:
Ferrer, Medical Department, Barcelona, Spain
M. a. Suarez Fuentes
Affiliation:
Ferrer, Medical Department, Barcelona, Spain
L. Delgadoalonso
Affiliation:
Gerencia atencion Primaria Valladolid Oeste, Medical Department, Valladolid, Spain
M. Rodriguez Calzada
Affiliation:
Rc Clinic, Psychology, Valladolid, Spain
R. Rodriguez Calzada
Affiliation:
Rc Clinic, Psychology, Valladolid, Spain
E. Calzadaamorrortu
Affiliation:
Rc Clinic, Psychology, Valladolid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

agitation is a frequent and complex emergency. Prehospital management of agitation requires appropriate measures to preserve patients’ safety, stabilize the patient and alleviate suffering, and transfer to the hospital psychiatric services, including involuntary admission if needed.

Objectives

To describe the incidence and management of agitation by the emergency medical service of Castilla y León (S aCyL) in an area of Valladolid.

Methods

Retrospective study of all psychiatric emergencies attended by a prehospital emergency medical service in 2014.

Results

one hundred and twenty-one emergencies were attended over a catchment area that covered 170,000 inhabitants (1.4/1000 inhab.). Overall, 55% were men, mean age was 45 years, 60% were considered psychiatric, 29% organic and 11% mixed. However, men had a higher frequency of organic (39%) compared to psychiatric (48%) agitation than women (16% and 75%, respectively), and most of them were related to alcohol or drug use.among patients with psychiatric or mixed agitation 81% had psychiatric history and the pharmacologic treatment most frequently used was intramuscular midazolam.

Conclusions

The incidence of acute agitation accounts for almost half of the total psychiatric emergencies in the prehospital setting. Since there are different healthcare providers in charge, specific protocols as well as treatment procedures are needed to provide the most adequate management, in order to ensure the best psychiatric emergency chain.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S444
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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