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Effects of positional restraint on oxygen saturation and heart rate following exercise
D T Reay1, J D Howard, C L Fligner
1King County Medical Examiner's Office, Seattle, Washington.
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
This report assesses the effects on peripheral oxygen saturation and heart rate that positional restraint induces when a person is prone, handcuffed, and "hog-tied." Peripheral oxygen saturation and heart rate were monitored at rest, during exercise, and during recovery from exercise for 10 adult subjects. The effects of positional restraint produced a mean recovery time that was significantly prolonged. Consequently, the physiological effects produced by positional restraint should be recognized in deaths where such measures are used.