Safe sedation of Acute Behavioural Disturbance with Tim Edwards

Pre-Hospital Care Podcast

In this conversation, we will look at the research examining methods of safe sedation by Advanced Paramedic Practitioners within London and examine the research published on this looking at sedation of Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD). We will examine; what the retrospective cohort study of pre-hospital agitation management showed regarding the sedation of the ABD patient. Also, the origins of ABD according to the paper, the Sedation Assessment Tool used to measure pre- and post-intervention, the approaches that senior clinicians can take to sedate patients and more.

To do this I have Tim Edwards with me, Tim is a Consultant Paramedic with the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Tim has been a paramedic since 2000 and has undertaken various roles including working as a flight paramedic, senior lecturer, and advanced paramedic practitioner and is currently working as a Consultant Paramedic in London.

The study that the conversation is based on can be found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9730188/#bibr_10

Many thanks to Tim for this conversation.