Mud pies and Taser wires
last night I was just getting ready to eat dinner when when of our regular psyhs ran out. She is a hooker who is HIV and has psych issues. She has been in ICU a few times for suicide attempts. I was mobile, and caught her near the main entrance gate and walked her back. I returned to my dinner. Apparently staff was changing her and knocked off her wig which upset her and got her restrained.
Another regular was brought in by police. He is known for decorating the walls of a psych room with his own feces, known as the mud pie incident, among other deeds. He was brought into psych last week after another area hospital kicked him out for being an inappropriate (dangerous) patient for their facility. Our psych unit had him for a week, and released him Tuesday to an outpatient detox facility. He walked away from the facility last night and got tooted up. He punched some glass fighting with his brother and came in papered and with a hand lac. He was all fired up, pacing around dripping blood on the floor, yelling, doing push ups etc. He broke off the tip of the IV pole on the stretcher and was waving it around like a weapon. Medical staff finally decided he had to be restrained. He backed into a corner and got ready to go at it with us. He was tasered by two cops, 100,000 volts. We went in and hooked him up. There was copper wire everywhere in the room.
He is a big guy, he is crazy, he is an ex con, he has a long history of crazy violence. I know some people think the taser should be re-evaluated, and there have been some injury and death associated with its use, but it worked great last night and no one got hurt, not the patient, not the police, and not the staff...There is nothing worse than a combative patient who is bleeding.
Another regular was brought in by police. He is known for decorating the walls of a psych room with his own feces, known as the mud pie incident, among other deeds. He was brought into psych last week after another area hospital kicked him out for being an inappropriate (dangerous) patient for their facility. Our psych unit had him for a week, and released him Tuesday to an outpatient detox facility. He walked away from the facility last night and got tooted up. He punched some glass fighting with his brother and came in papered and with a hand lac. He was all fired up, pacing around dripping blood on the floor, yelling, doing push ups etc. He broke off the tip of the IV pole on the stretcher and was waving it around like a weapon. Medical staff finally decided he had to be restrained. He backed into a corner and got ready to go at it with us. He was tasered by two cops, 100,000 volts. We went in and hooked him up. There was copper wire everywhere in the room.
He is a big guy, he is crazy, he is an ex con, he has a long history of crazy violence. I know some people think the taser should be re-evaluated, and there have been some injury and death associated with its use, but it worked great last night and no one got hurt, not the patient, not the police, and not the staff...There is nothing worse than a combative patient who is bleeding.
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