Best Practice Updates on Management of Agitation: The Art of Coordinated Response, De-escalation, and Pharmacotherapy
Emergency departments (EDs) are seeing a rise in behavioral emergencies, exposing clinicians to increased safety threats from workplace violence. Despite the high rates of violence, many emergency physicians lack formal training in managing agitation. During this webinar, the speakers will present new research on agitation care, focusing on de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed practices, and strategies to address implicit bias, and discuss the latest guidelines, workplace violence prevention, and psychopharmacology in agitation management. Time for questions and answers will also be available.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, learners should be able to:
- Manage patients who are agitated and experience behavioral emergencies.
- Implement or differentiate between existing and new and updated research on the management of patients who are agitated and present in EDs.
Planners, Faculty, and Moderator
- Alice Bukhman, MD, MPH - planner and faculty
- Ynhi Thomas, MD, MPH, MSc - planner and faculty
- Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS - planner and faculty
- Marie Vrablik, MD, MCR - planner
- Casey Clements, MD, PhD - faculty
- Dana Im, MD, MPP, MPhil - faculty
- Gina Lopez, MD, MPH - faculty
- Marc Martel, MD - faculty
- Sarayna McGuire, MD - faculty
- Bidisha Nath, MBBS, MPH - faculty
- Lynn Roppolo, MD - faculty
- Michelle Suh, MD, MHPE - faculty
- Michael Wilson, MD, PhD - faculty
- Julianna Jung, MD, MEd - planner/course director and moderator
Who Should Attend?
You should attend this webinar if you are a physician, resident, fellow, nurse, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or pharmacist with an interest in this topic.
Disclosures
None of the faculty, planners, course director, and SAEM CME staff for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients, except the faculty listed below.
Gina Lopez, MD, MPH - Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Associate Medical Director/employee)-relationship ended; Immunocore (Contracted Safety Physician/independent contractor)
SAEM adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies (commercial interests). All relevant financial relationships of those in control of educational content, including planners, presenters, staff, and others, have been mitigated.