1,000 lb Transfer: A Bariatric Case Study

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A Bariatric Case Study:  You are dispatched for a 32-year-old male with shortness of breath.  Upon arrival, you find a bariatric patient who appears to weigh several hundred pounds.  How do you take this patients BP?  How do you move this patient?  This workshop follows a 1,018lb patient who drove himself to a local hospital for shortness of breath, was admitted to the local ICU, and eventually flown on an Air Force Rescue Helicopter from Washington D.C. to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  The workshop will address the complex medical issues that arise from obesity, and the difficulties of treating a bariatric patient in the pre-hospital setting.