TY - JOUR T1 - Need for knowledge of local scanners for patients with morbid obesity JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 372 LP - 372 DO - 10.1136/emj.2007.046003 VL - 24 IS - 5 AU - S M Y Ahmed AU - K R Bhamidipati AU - R Ahmad Y1 - 2007/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/5/372.2.abstract N2 - We recently came across a very peculiar situation where we could not perform an urgent MRI scan for a patient owing to weight restrictions on the scanner in our hospital (Weston General Hospital, Uphill, Weston-Super-Mare, UK). A 44-year-old man weighing 197 kg was admitted to our hospital with features of progressive … ER -