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How do you approach the management of behavioral disturbance/aggression in patients with a recent traumatic brain injury?

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Subacute/Acute TBI agitation approach and management

If in the inpatient setting, the first step is to optimize verbal deescalation, ensure adequate medical work-up has been completed to rule out contributing factors (such as pain, delirium, seizures), environmental and behavioral interventions first...

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