PURPOSE This study investigated whether the use of restraining devices and related measures of care quality are different in nursing homes that score in the upper and lower quartiles on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) "prevalence of restraint" quality indicator, which assesses daily use of restraining devices when residents are out of bed. DESIGN AND METHODS The study was a cross-sectional study, ...

CONTEXT It has been suggested that after an incident in which a patient has been placed in seclusion or in restraints, an intervention should be conducted after the event to ensure continuity of care and prevent recurrences. Several terms are used, and various models have been suggested for post-seclusion and/or restraint review; however, the intervention has never been precisely defined. OBJ...

AIM The use of physical intervention on psychiatric inpatient units continues to be a source of debate and controversy. Some studies and national clinical guidelines have identified particular restraint positions as both dangerous and undesirable. The following study attempts to identify clinical variables that may make physical restraint in a particular position more likely. METHOD A cross-s...

A survey of directors of advanced educational programs in pediatric dentistry, identical to one conducted in 1979, was undertaken to examine the utilization of and indications for various physical restraint techniques. Updated results indicated that there is still a high acceptance of the hand-over-mouth (HOM) technique. Only 11.1% of programs never use the technique. However, the acceptance of...

objective: behavior management of uncooperative children is an important principle in pediatric dentistry. by adopting an appropriate behavior management technique, pediatric dentists can treat patients more effectively and create a positive attitude towards dentistry in them. this study aimed to assess the attitude of parents presenting to the department of pediatric dentistry at isfahan unive...

The article by Dr. Michael S. Pollanen and colleagues in this issue (page 1603) on the unexpected death of young adults in association with restraint is the latest contribution to a discussion that began in the early 1980s on the risk of death associated with physical restraint. In health care institutions, the use of restraints for elderly patients is well recognized as a potentially dangerous...

Background: Physical restraint is an intervention, which sometimes performed in psychiatric wards. Objectives: This study aimed to describe the lived experience of physical inpatients. Methods: In this qualitative study, in-depth unstructured interviews were conducted with 12 female and eight male inpatients restraint. The participants at hospital time interview. transcript was analyzed using a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of an IV, low-dose ketamine-diazepam combination used for short-duration chemical restraint on the results of clinicopathologic testing in cats and to assess its practicality and tolerance. DESIGN Prospective case series. ANIMALS 42 client-owned cats of various breeds, ages, and health status. PROCEDURES Blood samples were obtained just prior to and just ...

It is widely acknowledged that the use of general anesthetics can undermine the relevance of electrophysiological or microscopical data obtained from a living animal's brain. Moreover, the lengthy recovery from anesthesia limits the frequency of repeated recording/imaging episodes in longitudinal studies. Hence, new methods that would allow stable recordings from non-anesthetized behaving mice ...