title: [Physical restraint as a therapeutical procedure].
abstract: A study of 959 notices on physical restraint (Ph.R.) sent to the head of a mental hospital during 6 months showed that: imminent danger to the patient's own life or health or the life or health of others, violent destroying of ward equipment, grave psychomotor excitement prevail among the reasons for Ph.R. Therapeutic reasons are much less common. Every sixth (17%) episode of Ph.R. was used exclusively to perform therapeutic procedures, mainly intravenous drip. The Ph.R. was a therapeutic procedure is relatively seldom used without sufficient justification. As a rule a physician accepts nurses decision on Ph.R. with no further consideration. The same is true for director's acceptance of a physician's decision.
authors.affiliation: Zakładu Organizacji Ochrony Zdrowia IPiN w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Stanisław
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dabrowski
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D011044:Poland; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000008:administration & dosage; D012149:Restraint, Physical / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs