Contents

1. Kamikazes: Body count

2. Risk Factors: Statshots: Who needs help and where

3. Focal Points: Basic skills: What works and why

4. Judgment Calls. Initial assessment: The ABC's of response

5. Physical Intervention: Life-Support: Rescue breathing, CPR, vomiting, recovery position, coma, convulsions, diabetic emergencies, shock

6. Response Sets: Arousal & Stupor: CNS arousal & agitation, depressive stupor, universal overdose response

7. Outside (& Between) the Lines: Jumping Trees: Anticholinergic drugs, aspirin & acetaminophen, inhalants, PCP & ketamine

8. Emotional Rescue: Managing Meltdown: Set & setting, re-framing fear, alternative-focus, drug & non-drug emotional emergency responses

9. Final Focus: Pay Attention: The magic of attention

Appendix: Overdose Symptoms & Management

   

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