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Ethical guidelines for treating trauma survivors can provide professionals direction to enhance their efforts. Trauma survivors have unique needs and vary in their resilience, post-traumatic growth, and negative and positive outcomes from their experiences. Numerous ethical guidelines can inform a trauma-informed care (TIC) approach. [1]
Prefacing trauma questions with brief normalizing statements, such as "That is a common reaction" might facilitate deeper discussions about trauma. Asking for details about the experience may be traumatizing for the client. In situations where detail disclosure is necessary, such as law enforcement or litigation, certain approaches may be ...
Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) is a condition in which the heart has ceased to beat due to blunt or penetrating trauma, such as a stab wound to the thoracic area. [1] It is a medical emergency which will always result in death without prompt advanced medical care.
Vicarious trauma, conceptually based in constructivism, [12] [13] [14] arises from interaction between individuals and their situations. A helper's personal history (including prior traumatic experiences), coping strategies, support network, and other things interact with his or her situation (including work setting, nature of the work, and clientele served) and may trigger vicarious trauma.
By repeatedly and carefully having a patient think about or encounter the stimuli and confront the emotions they are feeling, they will experience less and less distress. By systematically targeting distressing memories and stimuli, with exposure therapy, it has been shown levels of depression and symptoms of PTSD decrease significantly.
The goal of EBN is to improve the health and safety of patients while also providing care in a cost-effective manner to improve the outcomes for both the patient and the healthcare system. EBN is a process founded on the collection, interpretation, appraisal, and integration of valid, clinically significant, and applicable research.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC or TC3), formerly known as Self Aid Buddy Care, [1] is a set of guidelines for trauma life support in prehospital combat medicine published by the United States Defense Health Agency. They are designed to reduce preventable deaths while maintaining operational success.
TRiM is a trauma-focused peer support system [2] and the way it works is wholly compliant with the PTSD management guidelines produced by the National Institute for Health and Care and Excellence. [3] Trauma risk management Practitioners are trained to carry out an interview which identifies a number of risk factors which, when present ...