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6. In this case it has little to do with the hospital

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 06:29 PM

Jan 2013

and more to do with fire safety regs. it is likely that at least one evacuation route cannot handle the specialist beds or chairs needed for high body mass patients. Treatment will still be given, just not on that ward

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Patients over 15 stones banned from hospital beds due to safety fears [View all] dipsydoodle Jan 2013 OP

Is that not 210 pounds? hlthe2b Jan 2013 #1

If thats what 15 x 14 is then yes. dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #4

That's approx 210 lbs - so in the US that means that even football players couldn't get a bed. n/t woodsprite Jan 2013 #2

That's pretty crazy... 15 stones is 210 lbs. DreamGypsy Jan 2013 #3

I remember trying to do an upper GI on a 500 pound woman newfie11 Jan 2013 #5

I think the issue is evacuation : not the beds dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #8

When I went into nursing in the early 80s Warpy Jan 2013 #9

re: "I wish medical science would tune out the moralists and try to find out exactly what that is" hlthe2b Jan 2013 #11

In this case it has little to do with the hospital intaglio Jan 2013 #6

Then they'd better order new equipment Warpy Jan 2013 #7

It's being used (temporarily) as an emergency ward muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #10