Guideline 2 - Managing an Emergency (April 2021) Guideline 1.4 - Principles and Format for Developing Guidelines (December 2010)
Supplementary document to Anaphylaxis flowchart: Dosage of IM Adrenaline for Anaphylaxis Please refer to the section that interests you.Īdvanced Life Support for Infants and Children Section 12 - Paediatric Advanced Life SupportĪ Summary of Changes is also available for each section of ANZCOR Guidelines. Section 10 - Education and Implementation Section 9 - First Aid and Specific Emergencies Sections 2-8 Guidelines - Basic Life Support Some queries that we've received can be found here. If you have a question or comment about any guideline then please contact us through the website. No matter who you are as a rescuer – bystander, first aider, first responder or health professionals – ANZCOR guidelines facilitate a standard approach to resuscitation best practice in Australia and New Zealand. ANZCOR guidelines are informed by peer-reviewed international evidence. Through ANZCOR, Australian and New Zealand interests are represented on the International Liaison Committee of Resuscitation ( ILCOR).ĪNZCOR guidelines replace earlier New Zealand Resuscitation Council guidelines and are endorsed by both Councils. Please note: Guidelines may be modified at any time and are only current from the day of printing.ĪNZCOR is the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation, of which the Australian Resuscitation Council and New Zealand Resuscitation Council are its members. Because words matter.Our guidelines provide those involved in resuscitation education and practice with recommendations based on scientific evidence. Get trained in Mental Health First Aid today to start thinking critically about the way you talk about mental health and substance use challenges.
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The course provides people with a greater understanding of the appropriate language to use and how to use it when beginning conversations about mental health and substance use challenges. One of the goals of Mental Health First Aid is to promote empowerment and strength when discussing your own or someone else’s mental health or substance use condition. Because mental health challenges and substance use conditions are so historically connected, we must be intentional with our language every step of the way when talking about and encountering people living with these illnesses.Ĭonversations and reports about mental health and substance use challenges must be reframed to eliminate negative language reinforcing stigmatization, discrimination and isolation. In 2014, SAMHSA released a National Survey on Drug Use and Health, that reported approximately 7.9 million adults in the United States had a co-occurring disorder, meaning both a mental health and a substance use condition. We must speak, write and think in a way that acknowledges the human being first, rather than their condition or disease. Addiction is no longer the primary, defining characteristic of an individual, but one of several aspects of the whole person. This terminology often reduces the person into a predetermined box of perceptions and judgments that foster discrimination.īy placing the person first, the person is emphasized. When we use terminology like “addict,” we may unknowingly begin to objectify the person and strip away their individuality by minimizing the totality of who they are.
Calling someone an addict not only reduces them to just that, it also perpetuates stigmatizing perceptions that influence the efficacy of our social and public health policies for addressing them. And how we think about things impacts our attitudes and approaches to addressing them. The language we use when referring to people speaks volumes about how we think about them. This kind of person-first language is key. The 2017 AP Stylebook encourages phrasing like “they were addicted” or “people with addictions.” By Mental Health First Aid USA on July 5, 2017ĭid you know that the word “addict” cannot be found in the most recent edition of the standard AP Stylebook? That’s because earlier this month, the Associated Press took a groundbreaking step in destigmatizing the disease of addiction – they removed the word “addict” as a noun.