r/emergencymedicine 3d ago

Advice Verbal approach to involuntary psych patients

/r/nursing/comments/1n0op3b/verbal_approach_to_involuntary_psych_patients/
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u/Old_Glove9292 3d ago

Gentle reminder that the World Health Organization considers both forced restraints and involuntary hospitalization to be human rights abuses, and is advocating for those interventions to be banned globally:

https://www.who.int/news/item/10-06-2021-new-who-guidance-seeks-to-put-an-end-to-human-rights-violations-in-mental-health-care

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u/FriedChickenIsTrash2 Physician Assistant 3d ago edited 3d ago

Put the World Health Organization bedside and let them deal with a combative GHB/polysubstance overdose without restraints and see how quickly they change their minds on banning restraints

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u/Rita27 medical assistant 3d ago

Yep, there’s a reason nobody really took that report seriously when it came out. The truth is, there is still a place for involuntary treatment. Even in Trieste, which is praised everywhere including by the WHO, it is still used but only very sparingly.