This recording is from 2018 or earlier, prior to national registration for paramedics being implemented in Australia and Aotearoa. Please note that while there is some excellent content that pre-dates registration, some may be out of date or no longer relevant to current guidelines and standards.
Presented by Dr Bill Lukin
Dr Bill Lukin, Deputy Director of Emergency Department at RBWH presents this workshop on Acute Mental Health with Dr Darren Neillie, Forensic Psychiatrist. Bill and Darren answer all your questions and concerns surrounding this controversial topic and covers the in and outs of EEOs, voluntary versus involuntary patients, when does ambulance responsibility end and the hospital’s begin, as well as explaining ITOs, OTRs and a whole lot more.
This presentation runs for 115 minutes.
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