EMTs may come across a situation where a patient begins to act extremely agitated or psychotic. Elevated temperature and sometimes alcohol or drug intoxication may be present. The patient will soon cease struggling, and often within minutes the patient develops inadequate or absent respirations and subsequently dies. It is important for the EMT to be alert for this sequence of events in a patient
who exhibits this behavior and monitor the patient constantly throughout the call. This condition is called:
A) psychotic delirium. B) excited psychosis.
C) bipolar disorder. D) excited or agitated delirium.
D
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