Autistic Man Falling Through The Cracks. Advanced patient transport and the "pop-up" recovery ward.

Autistic Man Falling Through The Cracks. Advanced patient transport and the "pop-up" recovery ward. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018 Dec 03;:1-4 Authors: Brendt P, Mathews A, Greenberg R, Arnold M Abstract The Royal Flying Doctor Service was tasked to relocate a 19 year-old autistic patient with severe social anxiety, agoraphobia and morbid obesity from one residential location to another. The retrieval team was confronted with two main challenges: 1. Continuous risk elevation in an elective patient transportation as distinct from other urgent prehospital transfers of mental health patients. 2. Pre-hospital ketamine/propofol sedation of an aggressive/combative patient with recovery from sedation in a private property. The transfer accomplished the successful relocation of the patient. PMID: 30501448 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research