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[bbbrammer]

What is the biggest pt you have ever had to move and how many people did it take?

So far I am up to a 678lb woman and we had 6 people.

[AZCEP]

845 lbs with 8 people, a chainsaw and a flat bed auto wrecker.

[windsong]

How do you feel about picking up people this large, what is in your mind at this moment. Have some of your crew ever made fun of them?

[wakkoemt807]

845 lbs with 8 people, a chainsaw and a flat bed auto wrecker.

This sounds like it belongs in the "box of condoms" thread lol

[skibum]

Many years back my partner and I had to "retrieve" a large pt from a nursing home for transport to the ER... I estimate 600lbs. Fortunately, the nursing home had a hydraulic lift (think of a device similar to that of lifting a whale at an aquarium), which made this an easy pickup. But in the ER, we stood back and let the nurses handle it

[bbbrammer]

How do you feel about picking up people this large, what is in your mind at this moment. Have some of your crew ever made fun of them?

Believe it or not we havn't made fun of them. We have several people out here who are 500+ lbs. The only thing that I feel about picking up these people is distress simply because our cot is only rated to 500lbs and we usually have to call in another service to take care of them because of that. Don't take offense, this thread is not to make fun of people. I am a decent sized person myself, especially because I am short. My question was more of a fact finding mission or general census (if you will) than any kind of mocking. I just put it in this forum because most people do find this kind of stuff funny, as well as it being a very popular forum for responses. Thats all.

[whit72]

Windsong wrote:

How do you feel about picking up people this large, what is in your mind at this moment. Have some of your crew ever made fun of them?

No its not funny at all, my back dosent think its funny, Its not funny that they always live on the third floor and its not funny that the elevator is always broken.

Not funny at all.

[AZCEP]

Some of the looks that we get upon delivery of these patients are pretty comical, but the situation itself is a long way from funny.

Shocking, maybe. Confusing, occasionally. Frustrating, frequently.

Never funny.

[medicnine]

we had to cut a hole through the outer wall of a manufactured house because our pt wouldnt fit through the door. she hadnt left her house in 5 years.

[Chrisclark]

Being that huge must really suck. Honestly, they are addicted to food and they act like addicts. They never go outside, because they can't fit out the door. Also, they live in fear of rolling over in their sleep and shutting their airway.