Management of patients with psychostimulant toxicity: guidelines for emergency departments. (2006)

Description

The purpose of this document is to provide draft guidelines for emergency departments throughout Australia to effectively and safely manage individuals who are experiencing, or suspected of experiencing psychostimulant toxicity and associated severe behavioural disturbance.

The aim of these draft guidelines is to assist clinicians in emergency
departments to:

• Identify patients who present with suspected psychostimulant toxicity

• Rapidly and safely manage suspected or confirmed psychostimulant toxicity utilising a standardised sedation protocol

• Recognise and safely manage medical complications.

These draft guidelines are not intended to replace any existing guidelines currently in use in each state or individual emergency department. Rather, the draft guidelines have been developed to assist clinical decision making,

Jenner, L. Spain, D. Whyte, I. Baker, A. Carr, V. Crilly, J. abstract

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