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Patient escapes restraints and allegedly attacks workers

Healthcare Security Weekly, December 3, 2007

A drunken patient, who escaped his arm restraints in a New York ER, allegedly whipped staff members with the electrical cables from medical equipment.

 

The 46-year-old suspect, who had been restrained because he was intoxicated, broke free and started allegedly punching, kicking, and biting security guards and nurses at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle, NY, according to the Associated Press. Six people suffered minor injuries in the attack, which occurred November 26.

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The suspect also allegedly threw a heart monitor at a nursing station. Police charged him with assault, criminal mischief, weapon possession, and reckless endangerment.

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