Acute agitation is a frequent cause of emergency department's consultation. Managing an agitated patient is complex due to many factors and require from healthcare teams a close interdisciplinary collaboration. Scope of this article is to describe the management of agitated patients in an emergency department and to present an interprofessional medical care protocol (white code protocol), giving also the opinion of principal actors of this healthcare interdisciplinary model.

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