Intervention last night about Obesity

jlobyxmas · January 30, 2008

Unfortunately there are weight limits on the equipment that is used in the hospital. For the UGI and Nuclear Medicine stress test, the table limits are in the range of 350 pounds. As for the ultrasound of the gallbladder that some physicians require pre-op you can basically forget about visualizing anything on a patient that size. Some facilities have retrofitted their equipment to accomodate larger patients. The health care vendors are now getting wise to the fact that the population as a whole is becoming more and more obese. Where previously it was rare to have a patient over 250-275 pounds that is increasingly becoming the norm for patients. So when new equipment is purchased one of the items that vendors push is "Oh our table limit is XXX".

I'm sure on Big Medicine since that hospital has a large bariatric program that there xray tables have higher weight limits.

Oh and I LOVVEEEE Intervention:tongue:

Daisalana · January 30, 2008

If you have Tivo, just search for Intervention. From the main TiVo screen, find programs (or something similar, I'm at work so don't have it in front of me), search for program, all catagories, all whatever, then type in intervention, search.. ta-da :tongue: