and following the treatment process‚ which are the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and the PTSD Checklist (PCL). The CAPS is given to guide researchers in making a current diagnosis of PTSD‚ examine a lifetime diagnosis for PTSD‚ and assessing PTSD symptoms over the past week (Weathers‚ 2013). The PCL is given to monitor military personnel symptom change before and after treatment and an overall screening for PTSD (Weathers‚ 2013). The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) is given
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evaluated it’s utility as an adjunct to psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD. To evaluate the effects of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of resistant and chronic PTSD‚ Oehen‚ Traber‚ Widmer and Schnyder (2013) conducted a pilot study to test the safety and efficacy of this treatment. First‚ Oehen et al. (2013) briefly outlined a current neurocircuitry model for PTSD. Oehen et al. (2013) stated that individuals with PTSD experience exaggerated and uncontrolled fear responses in the amygdala
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individual suspected in having PTSD would need to meet certain criteria in order to be officially diagnosed with PTSD. An evaluator would need to use a combination of observation‚ ‘checklist’ type tests‚ and a psychological evaluation including extensive background information based on the event that is supposed to have caused the PTSD. The testing criteria would need to include a construct that could weed out other possible causes for the distress that could dismiss PTSD as the cause of distress like
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Fifteen percent of all combat veterans are diagnosed with Mild Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Medication and time are two of the best treatments for Mild PTSD. Thirty Soldiers from Bayne Jones Army Community Hospital (BJACH) located on Fort Polk‚ LA diagnosed with Mild PTSD will be subjected to combat simulation conditions. The PTSD ABC Therapy will be given to fifteen Soldiers from BJACH who has been screened and cleared to conduct the ABC Therapy training. The other half will not receive
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Responders and Emergency Medical Technicians‚ at the Basic‚ Intermediate‚ and Paramedic levels. Each has a very important and unique function‚ and often heavily rely on each other on a daily basis. The EMT-Paramedic ("paramedic" here on) is the most highly trained prehospital care technician‚ and is capable of providing lifesaving techniques on par with some nurses and doctors in hospitals. The care provided by paramedics is most commonly called Advanced Life Support‚ or ALS‚ in the United States.
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The nature of the work: People’s lives often depend on the quick reaction and competent care of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics. EMTs and paramedics provide this vital service as they care for and transport the sick or injured to a medical facility. In an emergency‚ EMTs and paramedics are typically dispatched by a 911 operator to the scene‚ where they often work with police and firefighters. while assessing the nature of the patients condition‚ they try to determine whether
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why they are important when making positive experience for a patient (M1 & D1). The first job I am going to describe is a Paramedic. A paramedic is often one of the first health care professionals on the scene of an accident of emergency. There is either one or two-person ambulance crew‚ alongside an emergency care assistant or ambulance technician to assist them. A paramedic works in the ambulance service‚ responding to all sorts of incidents‚ such as road accidents or sport injuries. They are
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Breathe Response The book Breathe is a compilation of stories written from the point of view of a paramedic. Marianne Paiva is the author and narrator of these stories which she experienced between 1993 and 1997 while working on an ambulance in northern California. In this essay I will identify examples of specific stressors that the paramedic experienced as well as some of the coping mechanism that were used to deal with those stressors. In the chapter titled The Day After Valentine’s Day
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stretchers is due to the outstanding quality and service Stryker provided versus its competitors. Brand loyalty interview: the brand and its competition I interviewed Pat Crowe assistant Director of Cheboygan Life Support Systems Inc. He has been a paramedic for over twenty years. When he started working as an emergency medical technician in the late eighties each ambulance was equipped with a Ferno ambulance stretcher. Ferno stretchers were the standard stretcher used in the ambulance industry and they
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her condition worse. I think the minimum amount of manual handling would have involved placing her onto a carry chair and then onto the bed‚ therefore unnecessarily placing further strain on Estelita. EVALUATION I felt that the initial FRU Paramedic followed a systematic primary and secondary assessment JRCALC‚ (2006) as well as keeping Estelita well informed about her actions and reasoning’s at all times as per the HPC standards of conduct. This helped to alleviate her anxiety. However‚ in
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