Handling the Autism Crisis
The autistic patient presents significant challenges in communication, management, and transport, with changing environments often triggering coping skills like aggression, evasion, or elopement.
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The autistic patient presents significant challenges in communication, management, and transport. A changing environment is frequently the trigger for coping skills that include aggression, evasion, or elopement. Every autistic patient is different and handling them is as much an art as a science. The wide spectrum autistic patient presentations will be explored along with communication and management strategies that may facilitate appropriate care and rapid transport.
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W Lawrence (Larry) Daniels is the director of outpatient mental health services for the James Barry-Robinson Institute in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a pediatric nurse practitioner board certified in primary care and pediatric mental health. He currently has a personal patient load of over 700 youth that he sees for mental health conditions. He is serving his 50th year as an EMT and has 45 years as an ALS provider. Thirty of those were with Nansemond-Suffolk Volunteer Rescue Squad.