In situations like this where the family tells the hospital specifically what is going to happen and what to not do, it’s not alright to do the thing that’s known wrong.

For someone severely autistic all you have to do is reduce stimulation. Sedating them isn’t the right way to handle them. Putting them in a quiet room is the right way to handle them.

In situations where there’s no knowledge of what’s going on restraining them and getting a psychiatric nurse or doctor to evaluate them is probably a better outcome than sedating them. Sedation makes diagnosis impossible. The comeback is that there aren’t enough psych staff on hand to respond in emergencies. That’s just a pathetic state of things given the human mind is the most complex part of our being and illness of the mind is prevalent and largely untreated.