Hennepin Healthcare is phasing out the use of handcuffs by its paramedics to secure unruly patients, after its leaders checked and discovered that its urban ambulance agency was among the last in the ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained psychiatric patients at its inpatient unit at one of the highest rates in the nation in 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles General ...

Many medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the ...

stabbed a staffer in the head with a spike. According to authorities, as staff at the Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland tried to restrain the combative patient on Monday morning, a psychiatric ...

JACKSON, MI – A nurse at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital was stabbed while on the job last week when a patient became combative and pulled out a knife. Police were called at about 7 a.m., Feb. 13, to the ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained patients in its psychiatric inpatient unit at the fourth-highest rate of any such facility in the United States, newly released annual figures show — the ...