A new frontier: Posttraumatic stress and its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

After critical care: a study to explore patients’ experiences of a follow‐up service

“…For participants who were unable to recall in this study, there may be elements of dissociative amnesia, where patients do not remember traumatic events as an avoidance strategy, temporary protective psychological mechanism and/or symptom of PTSD (Stoddard & Todres 2001). In‐depth in‐person interviews may have yielded greater depth and richness of data than telephone follow‐up (Swadon et al 1995, Roberts and Chaboyer 2004).…”

Preliminary Evidence for the Effects of Morphine on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in One- to Four-Year-Olds With Burns

“…4 This is especially important because posttraumatic symptomatology may become persistent and refractory to treatment. 4 This is especially important because posttraumatic symptomatology may become persistent and refractory to treatment.…”

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Sertraline to Prevent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Burned Children

“…The early pharmacological or psychological prevention of childhood PTSD is a high priority in the care of children with injuries and generally in clinical psychiatry practice (Stoddard and Todres 2001;Pitman et al 2002;Stoddard 2002;Luthra and Stoddard 2005;Pitman and Delahanty 2005;Brunet et al 2008). We concur with Shalev (2009) that limited evidence exists on the pharmacological prevention of PTSD (Stein et al 2007).…”

“…There is continuing need for an evidence base for pharmacological agents to prevent the emergence of PTSD after trauma (Stoddard and Todres, 2001). 8 Although some preventive benefit has been established for cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) (March et al 1998), identifying the pharmacological agents most effective in PTSD prevention has been an elusive goal, in part due to the challenge of administering an agent shortly after a severe trauma, without certainty that they are at risk for PTSD.…”