Atención del intento suicida en la fase pre hospitalario

Abstract

Suicide is the act of deliberately taking one's own life. People who attempt suicide are often trying to get away from a life situation that seems unmanageable. Many of those who commit suicide attempts are seeking relief from different situations that affect their stay in society (MedlinePlus, 2018). All of this leads us as health professionals and pre-hospital care technologists to have to face and deal with this reality in the vocation of providing help in cases of emergencies and more specifically in particular situations, such as when we are faced with critical cases where the person tries to commit suicide in places without any advantage for us as rescuers. It is important to prioritize their attention and more so when we are the first ones to intervene, that is where the importance of having a manual with small essential bases that guides us about how to deal with this type of situation, which serves as a tool for decision making in the face of suicidal ideation and/or behavior, identified the important variability in the therapeutic management, based on the need to guide, organize and implement the action guide for relief agencies to make decisions in a short period of time and that we would be able to protect the life of both the person who is in the emergency, as well as the life of the rescuer. It’s important that every ambulance carry at least one guide to provide quality care in the field