Bariatric Products and Suppliers

Bariatric surgery is an option for the severely obese where lifestyle/medication has been evaluated by qualified professionals but found not to be effective. There are clear guidelines from NICE about who should be considered for bariatric surgery.

There are more than 8 million people in Britain that are classified as clinically obese. Increased weight not only creates mobility problems but it adds risk of injury to the carer during patient handling and movement.

Professional carers are afforded health and safety training in relation to patient handling but often friends and relatives are not provided with any initial training. Turning and repositioning a patient in bed to prevent pressure sores or indeed transferring a patient from bed to chair and assisting with the bath or toilet can be very arduous tasks.

Often a carer will need to support a limb whilst performing patient handling. Handling management of bariatric patients is clearly not as easy as smaller people and the strength of equipment needs to be taken into account. At the same time, there are environmental issues, including strength of equipment, doorway clearance and accommodation of scales which need to be addressed in the management of bariatric patients.

It is important to understand the specification of any bariatric patient handling equipment. As much as they might be advertised as 'heavy duty' double-check the weight capacity and if it isn't described in your preferred measurement, stones, kilos or pounds then either ask the retailer to convert it or take the extra trouble to use a conversion method. 225kg is about 35st and 510mm is 20".

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