Data gathering
- Red flags – DSH/suicide
- Others – flashbacks, nightmares, avoiding situations, sleep, concentration, mood
Clinical management
- Explanation
- PTSD, the distressing feelings and symptoms persist
- Treatment
- Mild + <4 weeks – watchful waiting – family, support groups
- CBT – trauma focused
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing – using eye movements and psychological therapy to help reduce the impact of the event
- SSRIs
- Follow-up, safety net