Training for Restraint:: things to avoid (#6) escorts on aircraft
The accompanying photo to this post comes from a restraint-related death of a deportee which happened in 1999 in Germany. The man who died was called Aamir Agheeb, a Sudanese national who died during an aircraft restraint on a Lufthansa flight (news story). Restraint during deportation has become national-level news here in the UK, where […]
Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that suggested it was […]
£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]
Restraint Training for Custody Officers
A Scottish police service had a training requirement to carry out Officer Safety Training for a team of Custody Officers. Their role: dealing with the needs of alleged offenders brought into custody in the police station. Who Engaged Dynamis A training partner of Dynamis, with whom we had worked on a number of projects involving […]
Throwback Thursday: Emergency Response Belt demonstrations in Dubai
Back in 2013, my team and I had the opportunity to demonstrate the use of the Emergency Response Belt to our healthcare authority clients in Dubai. With a very busy Emergency Department, taking hundreds of cases every day, the staff were sometimes having to deal with very upset, frustrated and distressed psychiatric patients presenting at […]
Case Study: Mental Health Unit Restraint Reduction Training
How Dynamis helped a mental health unit achieve a 90% reduction in mechanical restraint use and a 95% staff satisfaction rating, while meeting JCIA international standards. The Setting This was an ‘open’ psychiatric unit with separate male and female wards, delivering services in a highly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national environment. The unit faced the daily challenge […]
Throwback Thursday: Restraint Chair in Oman
During a trip to the middle east back in 2010 to visit with a number of psychiatric institutions and hospitals to give advice and training, I recall being shown the ‘restraint chair’ in the picture at one of the units I visited. I remember being quite surprised at the sight. Even though I was aware of […]
Restraint Training: Soft Cuff as the Least Restrictive Option
An innovative and significant restraint device is now available to hospitals and care services in the UK — and it deserves a serious, comprehensive exploration. The equipment is formally known as the Emergency Response Cuff (ERC) and is sometimes referred to as the “Soft-Cuff” due to its tough-cloth construction. While sharing many characteristics with its […]
Resident left the building: Care Home fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs
The owners of a Stamford care home where an elderly woman died have been fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs. The Incident Staff at the Whitefriars Care Home in St George’s Avenue failed to notice that pensioner Dorothy Spicer, 84, had gone missing on the evening of November 25, 2009. She was found […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Woman (89) died while being escorted by staff in care home
Source: Leicester Mercury Only one member of staff was helping Mrs Keogh on the morning of the accident when a risk assessment document said she needed two to help her wash, dress and move from one part of the home to another. An elderly care home resident died after crashing through a wooden handrail on […]