Behavioral emergencies include any patient-initiated threat of harm to self, health care personnel, or others in the patient's sphere of influence. Among the difficulties a primary care physician faces in dealing with behavioral emergencies is their infrequency and unpredictability. Periodic review of the principles of recognizing and managing these problems is therefore recommended.
Suicide, homicide, and other forms of violence are considered together and, unless otherwise specified, are referred to collectively as aggression. In fact, each is a form of potentially destructive aggression with only the targeted object differing. Each shares with the others their cause, risk, clinical presentation, and management. The primary goal in office-based primary care is rapid recognition of potential or actual aggression, reduction of potential for danger, timely triage, and effective disposition of the potentially dangerous patient.
Behavioral emergencies include any patient-initiated threat of harm to self, health care personnel, or others in the patient's sphere of influence. Among the difficulties a primary care physician faces in dealing with behavioral emergencies is their infrequency and unpredictability. Periodic review of the principles of recognizing and managing these problems is therefore recommended.
Suicide, homicide, and other forms of violence are considered together and, unless otherwise specified, are referred to collectively as aggression. In fact, each is a form of potentially destructive aggression with only the targeted object differing. Each shares with the others their cause, risk, clinical presentation, and management. The primary goal in office-based primary care is rapid recognition of potential or actual aggression, reduction of potential for danger, timely triage, and effective disposition of the potentially dangerous patient.
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