Personal Injury Law

Fears Over Defective Weighing Scale

By Greg Owen

It is bad enough that a four-year-old child has cancer, but can you imagine the hospital using a defective weighing scales to determine her radiation dosage!!! That is what happened recently in a hospital in the United Kingdom.

Recent check on the scales and other equipment in U.K. hospitals revealed that there are not only inaccuracys in the hospitals' scales, but found equipment was missing. Fortunately, in the case of the four-year-old cancer patient the error was spotted in time. But how many other miscalculations went unnoticed.

Due to these problems, The National Medical Weighing Project will be implemented in U.K. hospitals and will run for one year, beginning this April. Officers will make sure that in addition to hospital equipment being in excellent working order, they will ensure that staff are properly trained. As Dr Simon Lenton, the college's vice president for health services, said: "It is vital that both height and weight are correctly calculated when determining appropriate drug dosages. Children metabolise drugs differently from adults and therefore it is crucial that accurate measuring equipment is being used."

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Full post as published by Glendale Personal Injury Lawyer on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).