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muriel_volestrangler

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10. It's being used (temporarily) as an emergency ward

Reply to Warpy (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 08:06 PM

Jan 2013

I'd imagine the question is whether they can evacuate unconscious, or bed-bound, patients, via multiple exits. Perhaps the problem is there's only one entrance through which full-size gurneys can be moved, and the other door(s) would mean the patients being carried in some form (steps?)

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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