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Moving and handling is a potentially dangerous task, which is made even more complex when the patient who requires transferring is obese. This article reviews the factors that need to be taken into consideration when moving and handling an obese patient and describes how one hospital overcame the problem of moving a morbidly obese patient by using an electrically-operated profiling bed.
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