Explaining NMS and emergency plan to family — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes after reading time. You are the psychiatry registrar. The patient is being stabilised medically; you meet the sister. [2]

Candidate instructions. Explain what neuroleptic malignant syndrome is, link it to dopamine-blocking medicines without minimising seriousness, describe what the team is doing now (stopping those medicines, cooling, fluids, monitoring), and answer questions about whether medication can ever be restarted. Avoid jargon dumps and avoid inventing legal section numbers. [1][3]