Free Behavioural Emergencies Talks

Behavioural emergencies are among the most difficult challenges that emergency physicians and nurses face. It never hurts to know more about how to deal with them.

Like me, you may have missed Les Zun’s conference, the 2nd Annual National Conference on Behavioral Emergencies, that was held in Las Vegas last December. But, fear not, Les has allowed recordings of the talks to feature on Joe Lex’s fantastic ‘Free Emergency Talks‘ website (they can be viewed at http://freeemergencytalks.net/tag/updates-in-behavioral-emergencies/).

Joe has kindly provided the following list of talks for you to download and listen to, all for free:

• Les Zun: Behavioral Emergencies – Introduction – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XF
• Les Zun: Is Testing Needed in the Medical Clearance Process? – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XJ
• David Howes: Is This Patient on Drugs or Withdrawing? – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XM
• Ed Sloan: The Delirious Patient – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XP
• Michael Wilson: I Feel Anxious and Panicky – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XT
• Claire Gray: Identifying and Assessing Suicidal and Depressed Patients – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XV
• MichaelPulia: PTSD: Psychological Manifestations of Disasters and Terrorism – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1XY
• Divy Ravindranath: Difficult Patient Presentations: Factitious and Sociopathic Personalities – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Y1
• Suzanne Dooley-Hash: How to Evaluate and Treat the Eating Disorder Patient – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Y4
• Susan Burch: Preventing Violence in the Acute Care Setting – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Y7
• Les Zun: Reducing Your Agitation with the Agitated Patient – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Ya
• Seth Powsner: Gaining Consensus on the Agitated Patient: Report on the BETA Project – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Yd
• Lara Chepnick: Adverse Effects Associated with Psychiatric Medications – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Yg
• Chuck Weiss: Getting Paid – How Does Caring for Psychiatric Patients All Add Up? – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Yj
• Seth Powsner: Collaborating with Inpatient Psychiatry – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Ym
• Tony Ng: Psychiatric Boarders in the Emergency Department – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Yp
• Avrim Fishkind: Providing Psychiatric Care in Regions with Low Resources – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1Yu
• Joseph Monahan: Informed Consent, Civil Commitment, and Other Legal Issues – http://wp.me/sR3VZ-7597
• Peter Brown: Process Improvement for Behavioral Emergencies – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1YB
• Pat Lee: Process Improvement – The Physical Plant – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1YE
• John Berlin: Using Advanced Interviewing Techniques – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1YH
• Tony Ng: Effective De-Escalation Techniques – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1YK
• Benjamin Bregman: Brief Interventions in the Emergency Department – http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1YO

Finally, if these talks have tickled your fancy you may well want to be at the 3rd annual National Update in Behavioral Emergencies in Las Vegas from December 5th to 7th 2012. You can download a pdf of the schedule here, or visit www.behavioralemergencies.com to find out more.