Even more about flabulances and other fatso devices.
The cost of obesity has grown to $270 billion per year nationwide, mostly due to an increase in medical costs. Included in that price is the special equipment required by ambulance companies who respond to calls for the overweight.Kudos, fatsos.
Rural Metro medic Nick Corbishley says it is not uncommon for his company to have an obese patient, 330 pounds or more, at least once each day. The heaviest he's ever encountered was 550 pounds, but "there are people who have experienced much larger in the 6 to 700 range," he said.
Mark Mceaney, also a Rural Metro medic, says the company has taken notice and is responding by purchasing new equipment. The new tools include a new $50,000 bariatric transport unit, special stretchers that are 50 percent wider than normal and a bariatric bag that helps multiple first responders to lift an obese person onto the stretchers.
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