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Caring for Patients in Law Enforcement Custody

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Is It Safe to Have Handcuffs in Place?

If a patient is convicted of a crime, then the requirements for them to be restrained with handcuffs might be different from some one who's just in custody ther purposes. We should also feel as though there was a way for us to make that case to law enforcement, to to change, e no physical restraint policies for somebody in such a situation. I wasn't so bold, and had a patient in, the i c ou at one of our county hospitals,. who, you now, an was ventilated for respiratory failure and ultimately passed away. And it wasn't until her family came in and saw her in, like, leather restraintsh her body in leather restraints, tied to the bed

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