@article{ref1,
title="Handle with care: the challenges of transporting suicidal patients",
journal="JEMS: a journal of emergency medical services",
year="2008",
author="Dunn, Thomas M.",
volume="33",
number="10",
pages="86-92",
abstract="In July 2007, a suburban Denver ambulance began a routine &quot;psych transfer&quot; of a 36-year-old woman from a hospital to a psychiatric facility. During transport, the woman leapt from the moving ambulance onto a busy interstate. She later died of her injuries. Similar incidents are by no means uncommon. In September 2007, another psych transfer ended in tragedy after a suicidal patient jumped from a moving ambulance in Lansing, Mich., and was hit and killed by a car. Three other deaths from patients jumping from ambulances (one in 2002 and two more in 2005) in Michigan were reviewed recently in a medical journal as a warning to providers about the possibility of suicidal patients killing themselves during transport. Deaths resulting from intoxicated persons jumping from moving police cars have also been documented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0197-2510",
doi="10.1016/S0197-2510(08)70383-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0197-2510(08)70383-8"
}