Danish study links mechanical restraint to doubled blood clot risk in psychiatric patients

Psychiatric inpatients subjected to mechanical restraint face increased risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots, a serious adverse health outcome.

A large Danish study spanning two decades has found that psychiatric patients subjected to mechanical restraint face roughly twice the short-term risk of developing blood clots compared to those receiving chemical restraint. The finding arrives not as an indictment of a single practice, but as a reminder that even necessary interventions carry hidden costs — and that the most vulnerable patients often bear the heaviest burden of those costs. In a population already predisposed to vascular harm by illness, medication, and circumstance, immobility becomes one more weight on an already strained s

Danish study links mechanical restraint to doubled blood clot risk in psychiatric patients

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