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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“We Are Going To Need Like 5 People Just To Move Her On To The Gurney.”
“We are going to need like 5 people just to move her on to the gurney.” – Anesthesiologist in front of a larger sized mother after an unexpected and upsetting cesarean section.
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Feb 3, 2012 @ 5:47 am (Quote)
It doesn’t matter how many people it really takes to move her, you still don’t say it out loud! What an asshat. :/
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Mom of One had this to say,
Feb 3, 2012 @ 6:27 am (Quote)
Hmmm… reminds me of the idiot student nurse I had who, just as they were getting ready to move me said, “I can’t lift anything ‘that heavy’(refering to me) since I have a sore shoulder. Now I am far from skinny, but I have never weighed more than 190lbs even when pregnant!
These people need to learn when to keep their mouths shut!
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nothing like adding insult to injury!
not sticking up for him AT ALL, as this NEVER should have been said out loud, but i’m assuming that seeing as it had been a c-section, mom was probably unable to move herself. (never had a c-section, so forgive my ignorance if i’m wrong in that assumption). i work ambulance though and even tiny little old ladies, if they are unable to help us transfer them to the hospital cot, ideally take 4-5 people to help lift. it’s not that they’re heavy, but about supporting their body as we move them and not just plopping them down. i’m guessing that the tone of voice this comment was said in was condescending too though 
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Jane Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 8:45 am (Quote)
If it takes four to five people to transfer a little old lady, and this anesthesiologist was complaining it would take “like five people” to move the OP — thinking it was an insult — then the anesthesiologist made himself/herself look like an idiot in front of the rest of the staff. Apparently this anesthesiologist feels free to comment about subjects s/he knows nothing about.
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My husband is about that weight at 6′ 3″. Why is it I doubt anyone would have said anything about lifting a man, even a rather large footbal player type man? Hilary, watch on the Superbowl this weekend and see how many of them are over 245.
Kris to answer your question, when one of my c-sections was over they asked me to hold my upper body stiff while the slid me over from the operating table to the slightly lower gurney. I couldn’t tell you how many of them there were, but it seems like there was a sheet under me and they lifted it as a team and I was over in 2 seconds. Then they flipped up the sides of the gurney and gave me my baby. That part I remember very clearly. He was so cute!
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atyourcervix had this to say,
Feb 3, 2012 @ 9:31 am (Quote)
When we move patients on and off of the OR table, it’s about safety for everyone involved – patient and staff. We use a roller board to transfer a patient who has regional anesthesia (spinal or epidural), and also for general anesthesia.
One person at the head
One person at the feet
One person to pull the roller board
One or two people to help push the patient from the opposite side of the roller board. Does not matter if the patient is 100 lbs or 300 lbs.
So, we are always at a minimum of four people to transfer a patient.
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Heather Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:18 am (Quote)
when I was prone for my cesarean, it only took two people to move me and I was only 13lbs less than my absolute heaviest (which was 255). One on each side. It must vary by hospital
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Serene Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 6:07 am (Quote)
Go to a different hospital, because that is just plain unsafe. For you and them.
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Heather Reply:
February 10th, 2012 at 12:02 am (Quote)
Well, the hospital was shut down in favor of a new death machine (seriously, the hospital they built to ‘centralize’ for the city has SO many wrongful death suits against it…) so even if I wasn’t done having hospital births (had a wonderful birth center VBAC and will be having a HBAC next time since I almost didn’t make it to the birth center, lol), that wouldn’t be a problem.
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Rainbow had this to say,
Feb 3, 2012 @ 7:34 pm (Quote)
What an ass. I was 227 when I delivered my twins via c-section at 37w2d and no one said a word about needing extra people to move me bc of my weight. I don’t even remember how many people moved me but I know the number was never mentioned. The anesthesiologist was pretty close to within reach of my right arm and I probably would have attempted to take a swing at him had he said anything like that about me while I was present. Same goes for the student nurse that another poster mentioned.
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Ok, I’m going to assume this mother didn’t weight 700lbs (which might actually necessitate 5 people) and call bs. Most ‘heavy’ people take no more attendants to move than ‘standard’ sized people. When you’re moving a prone figure it’s far more about how many people you need to support a *human body*, that is a figure with four independant limbs and a fragile head, than the weight. I know when my mom worked in a nursing home, regulations required 2 ppl for a seated move and 4 ppl for a prone move, didn’t matter if they were moving an 80lb or a 300lb person.
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Jane Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:51 am Jane(Quote)
Thank you. I wanted to say this is patently untrue, but I didn’t have any facts to back it up.
My next thought is why on earth did the anesthesiologist feel it necessary to say this anyhow? The anesthesiologist isn’t in charge of moving the patient around, and the anesthesiologist isn’t going to follow the patient back to the recovery room, so why the necessity to comment on her weight?
Maybe the anesthesiologist was so used to dealing with unconscious people that s/he forgot awake people can HEAR. Geez.
((Okay, I do have a question: since it’s moving a human *body* that’s the problem, not the weight, does that mean a freakishly long human being would require more people to move? So a prone ten-food tall person would require six people to move whereas a prone five-foot-five person requires four? Or is it just the quadrants and not the length/size/weight?))
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Jespren Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 5:55 am Jespren(Quote)
You are probably correct, as they use 2 people, one at the head and one at the feet, to move children. I expect if you had a tall person you’d need an extra 1 or 2 in the middle to help hold up the torso, as torsos tend to sag in the middle. That, however, is a best guess based upon first aid training and some emt friends, it’s not a specific regulation I am aware of. It certainly would make sense though that a 6ft person might need some extra hands in the middle section. But really you just need as many people as are needed to safely do the job, there isn’t any reason to denigrate a patient because it might take 6 people as opposed to 4 any more than it would make sense to get annoyed with an adult because you need 4 instead of 2 with a child.
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Lisa Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 10:24 pm Lisa(Quote)
I know they used extra people to move my 6’8″ 300lb dh when he was in ICU. I think it was at least 5. I know it was quite the production.
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Kaywinnet Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 9:36 pm Kaywinnet(Quote)
I was an ambulance dispatcher for the disabled, and our policy was 1 person per 100lbs. That was it. Any other circumstances were left up to the paramedics/ambulette drivers. If they felt the person was too tall or too short and wide for them to move safely with the crew available, we WOULD send more. But the only written policy was 1/100.
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Margaret Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 5:07 am Margaret(Quote)
Yepper, did a nursing home stint including lifting some pretty large, mostly immobile people, and this guy is just being a jerk. If a couple of nurse aids can manage it, surely a room full of highly educated and supposedly skilled professionals can figure out the basic logistics *without being an ass about it*.
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Margaret Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 5:08 am Margaret(Quote)
This kind of thing makes me really glad I was completely out during my d&c a few years ago. I really don’t want to know what was said about me and my body.
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OP- Hilary Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 5:57 am OP- Hilary(Quote)
This was my post.. Just wanted to say thanks for the support! Plus, I was about 245 lbs, so not even close to 700 lol
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Darsy Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:07 am Darsy(Quote)
I weigh more than you and I’d have been on the warpath and majorly offended if I heard anyone referring to me like this! Thanks for posting it, I’m sure it hurts just to look at the words
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Lisa Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:25 am Lisa(Quote)
Exactly…if my sister in law and I (who are both under 5 feet tall) alone can transfer our 200 pound quadriplegic mother in law by ourselves, these drs should have no problem!
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Serene Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 6:06 am Serene(Quote)
Well your SIL and you do not have a legal requirement to yourselves to do it safely…
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Ellen Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:15 pm Ellen(Quote)
Did they move a lot of people in prone positions? I thought those were only used for back and hemorroid surgeries, and people on gurneys were usually supine :}
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Ellen Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:20 pm Ellen(Quote)
Ah, geez, MOBSW won’t let you edit comments when you spot a typo. I do know how to spell “hemorrhoid”
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Jespren Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:27 pm Jespren(Quote)
Lol, no, they didn’t move a lot of people in the prone position, I should have said supine. I was using it as the common-man’s term for ‘laying down’. They did move people from prone to supine as they has several bed bound ladies who had to be turned to avoid bed sores though.
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Serene Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 6:05 am Serene(Quote)
OK well Im gonna make one point here… and remember Im a nurse, and I move people from bed to bed daily… on a normal weighted person, we need 3 people minimum LEGALLY. Anything above100kg/220lb, we need 5 people minimum LEGALLY. Above 180kg, we need 7. So while they are a jackass for saying it aloud, theyre right.
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