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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
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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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