Acute Stress: A Normal Response To An Abnormal Event | NLM

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Acute Stress: A Normal Response To An Abnormal Event

11/07/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 11/7/2019. Through his experience as a physician providing medical support for law enforcement, the speaker in this one-hour, four-minute webinar discusses how he learned first-hand about the symptoms of acute stress, and how this normal response after a traumatic event differs from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This presentation aims to help prepare willing responders to be better informed and able to do the job they are called upon to do, during and after a traumatic event. (Video or Multimedia)