Physical restraint use in children with mental and behavioral health emergencies in the prehospital setting.
adolescent
child
emergency medical services
mental health services
physical
restraint
Journal
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open
ISSN: 2688-1152
Titre abrégé: J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101764779
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
14
04
2023
revised:
24
06
2023
accepted:
10
07
2023
medline:
21
8
2023
pubmed:
21
8
2023
entrez:
21
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Emergency medical services (EMS) transport for mental and behavioral health (MBH) emergencies occurs frequently in children, yet little is understood regarding prehospital physical restraint use despite the potential for serious adverse events. We aim to describe restraint use prevalence and primary impressions among children with MBH emergencies. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study of children with MBH emergencies evaluated by Alameda County (ALCO), California EMS from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2018. Patient demographics and clinical variables were collected from the EMS records including sex, age at time of encounter, year of encounter, transport destination, medication use, and primary impression(s). The primary outcome was the use of physical restraints. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the primary outcome and associated demographic and diagnostic features, as well as temporal use patterns. Sex and age were compared between restrained and non-restrained youth using chi-square analysis. Over the 7-year study period, ALCO EMS transported 9775 children with MBH emergencies. Of these transports, 1205 (12.3%) were physically restrained. Most children restrained had the primary impression of "behavioral/psychiatric crisis" (51.1%), "psychiatric crisis" (27.4%), and "behavioral-other" (12.4%) and the remaining children (9.1%) had a non-psychiatric/behavioral health primary impression. Over time, there was no statistically significant change in either number of children with MBH emergencies transported or physical restraint rate. More than 1 in 8 children with MBH emergencies are being physically restrained during EMS transport. Restraint rate did not substantially change over time. Further studies to understand existing restraint rates and EMS resources available to address acute agitation in children are needed to inform quality and care enhancing initiatives.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37600903
doi: 10.1002/emp2.13016
pii: EMP213016
pmc: PMC10432898
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e13016Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. JACEP Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American College of Emergency Physicians.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article to disclose.
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