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- Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Bat boy, 9, dies after being struck in the head by a practice swing

The home plate umpire, a paramedic, performed CPR, but Kaiser Carlile died of his injuries
1 killed when storm slams tent down on festival crowd

3 others were seriously injured when a sudden storm blew a tent off its moorings at an event near Chicago
Tree crashes through bedroom, crushes sleeping NY woman

The woman suffered serious injuries when the tree landed on her bed; it took rescue workers more than two hours to free her
Medics, firefighters get HIPAA wrong with 'citizen journalists'

In two separate incidents medical and fire personnel order civilians to stop filming a patient in a public place

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EMS lacks clear and widely-adopted patient restraint practices. Recently an unrestrained psych patient in Utah grabbed the wheel of an ambulance, causing it to crash, and a man in Miss., alleged to have used LSD, died after hogtie restraint from a cardiac condition.

Both incidents have led to questions about the role of EMS in restraining and transporting psychiatric patients. Is an ambulance the right vehicle for a psych patient transfer? And once inside the ambulance consider these tips and levels of restraint while avoid these common restraint errors.

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