Emergency medical services professional behaviors with violent encounters: A prospective study using standardized simulated scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

To evaluate emergency medical services (EMS) professional response to escalating threats of violence during simulated patient encounters and describe differences in behaviors by characteristics.

Methods

EMS professionals of a large county-based system participated in 1 of 4 standardized patient care scenarios. Each 8-minute scenario included escalated threats of violence such that EMS personnel should escape the scene for safety. Trained evaluators recorded EMS professionals' performance using standardized data elements. Outcomes included EMS personnel escape and verbal de-escalation attempts. Descriptive statistics and univariable odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) are reported.

Results

There were 270 EMS professionals evaluated as i

SUBMITTER: Garner DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023872 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature