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Medical Posts
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How often should I weigh myself?
How often have you asked yourself this question? You may have Googled the answer, but the answer really depends on your weightloss goals.
Whilst keeping regular track of your weight is recommended, weighing yourself too often, or not often enough, can have negative effects on your weightloss plan and motivation.
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How to measure how much breastmilk a baby is getting
It is perfectly normal for babies to lose 10% of their birth weight[1], yet for new mothers weight loss can still be a concern.
A drop in weight can of course be attributed to milk intake. For breastfeeding mums, working out how to measure how much breastmilk a baby is getting is tricky.
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Stand assist: The new M-250 can help improve patient care
This month we unveiled our new M-250 with lift/stand assist: a revolutionary scale with ergonomic design to ease patients from a sitting to standing position.
The movement from sitting to standing can be a great strain on those suffering with existing conditions. Hip fracture is the most common serious condition in older people and costs the NHS £1billion per year.
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The M-250 Chair Scale with Lift Assist: Another Marsden world-first arrives
Our brand new chair scale with lift assist, the Marsden M-250, has arrived.
Two years in the making, the M-250 will be officially launched at Medica in Dusseldorf, Germany next week. You can read everything you need to know, and see the M-250 in action, in this blog post.
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Body composition scales: Why is Protein Mass important?
Marsden’s body composition scales were updated this year, with new measurements that provide an even better picture of body health.
Two of those new readings are Protein Mass and Muscle Mass, and this blog post looks at why measuring your protein intake is so important.
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Patient Transfer Scale: 8 best practice steps for weighing immobile patients
The Patient Transfer Scale is so easy to use when you need a quick weight for immobile patients, because it’s used in just the same way as you would a transfer board or transfer slide.
It’s important, though, to remember that the PTS is a weighing scale too, and a few pointers on technique will make all the difference when getting your weight reading.
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Best practice: How to get a patient out of a wheelchair
Chair scales are a popular choice for weighing patients in care homes, nursing homes and hospitals. We are focusing on how to get a patient out of a wheelchair or chair scale safely.
Chair scales allow a patient unsteady on their feet to be weighed easily and comfortably. And, the scale can be taken to the patient - wherever they are in the home or hospital.
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Focus on: Reducing door to needle time
Reducing door to needle time in hospitals has been a conversation in patient care for years. The question is how do we first qualify what counts as ‘door to needle time,’ and where can improvements be made?
In cases such as stroke and myocardial infarction, reducing ‘door to needle’ time is vital to patient outcomes.
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