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Acute behavioural disturbance

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Best Practice Guideline. Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. Violence and aggression: short term management in mental health, health and community settings. Guidelines for the Management of Excited Delirium/Acute Behavioural Disturbance. Acute behavioural disturbance (ABD): guidelines on management in police custody.

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Employ a Trauma-Informed Approach to Care

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Stress to the patient that they can refuse any or all parts of the medical forensic examination. Dr. Rozzi is an emergency physician, director of the Forensic Examiner Team at WellSpan York Hospital in York, Pa., and chair of the Forensic Section of ACEP. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020;20(1):455. Int J Emerg Med. 2023;16(1):38.