{"id":270,"date":"2020-11-04T01:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-11-04T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:06:31","slug":"acute-behavioural-disturbance-acute-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/acute-behavioural-disturbance-acute-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute Behavioural Disturbance \u2013 Acute Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Acute_behavioural_disturbance__Acute_management\/\">Acute Behavioural Disturbance &#8211; Acute Management<\/a> was an existing Victorian CPG that has been revised then reviewed by CPG Committee members. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 26 November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Management should focus on verbal and non-verbal de-escalation and emphasise the child\u2019s safety with carer involvement and existing behaviour or communication plans where appropriate<\/li>\n<li>Consider underlying neurodevelopmental diagnoses (autism, ADHD) or a history of adverse childhood experiences<\/li>\n<li>A stepwise approach should be used if pharmacological treatment is required.\u00a0 Physical restraint should be a last resort,\u00a0<b>only<\/b>\u00a0to facilitate rapidly effective pharmacological treatment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The previous &#8220;Acute Behavioural Disturbance: Assessment and verbal de-escalation&#8221; CPG has been removed as the contents have been incorporated in this updated Acute Management CPG.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian CPG has been revised and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 26 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}