{"id":3926,"date":"2008-04-09T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:10:17","slug":"33-of-adult-ame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"33% of adult Americans are obese &#8230; which means we need updated ambulance equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger stretchers, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/08\/health\/08ambu.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><strong>Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment &#8211; New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The department\u2019s gurneys could not adequately support the patients\u2019 weight, and the department had to pay a private ambulance company.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the department bought three gurneys that can hold patients weighing up to 600 pounds, about twice the holding capacity of a regular stretcher. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to do something,\u201d Acting Chief Tim McGinley said. \u201cIt was one of those things where we would try to use the equipment we had and were afraid that you were going to end up hurting somebody, the patients themselves or the staff.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger stretchers, etc. Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment &#8211; New York Times The department\u2019s gurneys could not adequately support the patients\u2019 weight, and the department had to pay a private ambulance company. Last fall, the department bought three gurneys that can hold patients weighing up to 600 pounds, about twice the holding capacity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}