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Many hospitals have failed to invest in 'supersize? equipment suited to morbidly obese patients, they said.
Investigations by surgeons at North Bristol NHS Trust found only one in six hospitals had access to MRI or CT scanners capable of taking the heaviest patients, weighing over 35 stone.
As an emergency measure, they will need to rely on scanners usually operated by vets as Britain?s obesity crisis means dealing with severely overweight patients becomes more routine.
Hospitals in the US are already calling zoos to use their scanners - built for lions, gorillas, horses and cattle.
Writing in The Royal College of Surgeons of England Bulletin, Sally Norton, a consultant bariatric surgeon, warned: ?Failure to provide required imaging may lead to delay in diagnosis or inappropriate surgery ? and, occasionally, enquiries into the potential use of veterinary or zoological scanners, with resultant loss of dignity for the patient.?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/964...s-to-use-super-size-MRI-scanners-at-zoos.html
Investigations by surgeons at North Bristol NHS Trust found only one in six hospitals had access to MRI or CT scanners capable of taking the heaviest patients, weighing over 35 stone.
As an emergency measure, they will need to rely on scanners usually operated by vets as Britain?s obesity crisis means dealing with severely overweight patients becomes more routine.
Hospitals in the US are already calling zoos to use their scanners - built for lions, gorillas, horses and cattle.
Writing in The Royal College of Surgeons of England Bulletin, Sally Norton, a consultant bariatric surgeon, warned: ?Failure to provide required imaging may lead to delay in diagnosis or inappropriate surgery ? and, occasionally, enquiries into the potential use of veterinary or zoological scanners, with resultant loss of dignity for the patient.?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/964...s-to-use-super-size-MRI-scanners-at-zoos.html