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Emergency Department Agitation Code Response Team Reduces Use of Physical Restraints

A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...
The Conversation

Physical restraint doesn’t protect patients – there are better alternatives

It’s an uncomfortable image to consider: an elderly person – perhaps somebody you know – physically restrained. Maybe an aged care resident deemed likely to fall has been bound to his chair using ...
Houston Chronicle

Patient deaths raise debate over physical restraint

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...
Healio

Care team ‘huddles’ reduced physical restraint events at children’s hospital

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...
WGBH

Duration of physical restraints at state mental hospital raises concerns

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...
The Courier-Journal

JCPS is physically restraining thousands of kids, more than ever, despite state warning

Physical restraint may only be implemented by a core team of school personnel who are trained in restraint techniques, except in emergency situations. Prone restraints — where a child is held ...