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e-Learning | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

1st February 2019 by Louise Hudman

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e-Learning | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

This is an updated guideline from NICE on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD. The last guideline came out in 2005. I don’t think this really changes our management much (i.e. watch and wait for 1 month and then refer for most patients), but I will summarise the symptoms we should be looking out for and also the management. I found it very interesting what the evidence was for different treatments and was a bit surprised.

I use the term ‘clinically important symptoms’ of PTSD. NICE advises that these are people who reach the threshold for diagnosis of PTSD, but who don’t yet have a diagnosis of it. It seems to be a term mainly used in research.

I also use the term CBT quite freely as we aren’t going to be deciding on what kind of CBT a patient has.

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