Patient Safety

Restraints in the medical environment are tools that restrict the patient’s movement. Restraints can help in keeping an individual from getting injured or injuring others. They are typically used as the last resort to controlling the patients. The use of physical restraints in a medical institution is more common than you might think for patient safety straps. Therefore, there are strict policies laid out with regard to its use. These rules and regulations ensure that physical restraints are not misused on the patients.

Who Might Require Physical Restraints?

Medical institutions of all kinds use physical restraints to ensure that the patients, as well as the medical staff, remain safe and secure. In an acute care facility, physical patient restraints are used in ICUs where patients are semiconscious and lucid. The restraints are used to keep the patients still who might be at risk of falling out of the best or might pull inserted tubes from their bodies.  Medical staff uses them to avoid critical situations where patients remove their breathing tubes as such action and physical harm the patients and deprive of them the necessary oxygen needed. At times patients are weak and are at high risk of falling from the bed. In such cases, medical staff restricts patients for their safety.

 Types of Physical Restraint

Depending on the situation there are different types of physical restraints that include –

1. Bed Safety

Bed rails on all the corners of the patients’ bed are the most basic form that physical restraint comes. It is used to protect the patient from falling out of bed. Additionally, there are straps that roll from side to side and hooks underneath the bed to protect patients from falling. These straps come with special padding that allows medical staff to tighten the straps without causing any skin tears and bruising on the patients.

2. Mittens

These are another form of common physical restraint commonly used in the medical environment. Safety mittens are typically used on newborns to prevent them from scratching themselves. They are also used for patients who try to undo their other restraints frequently.

3. Limb Restraints

Limb restraints are put around the patient’s ankle or wrists. It helps in avoiding harmful limb activity. Additionally, they are used to stop patients from hurting themselves or others around them.

4. Safety Vests and Jackets

These safety restraints are worn like a normal vest, and it has a long strap at the bottom of each side that can be knotted together behind the chair.

5. Soft Splints

Soft Splints are recommended for patients who need additional limb restraint to prevent the incidents of tube pulling.

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