Medical Posts
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How Often Should Your Baby Be Breastfeeding?
After having your first baby, you’re likely to have a lot of questions, especially regarding breastfeeding.
First-time parents are often surprised by just how often their newborns need to feed, and it can be a little bit daunting.
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What Are Baby Weighing Scales Used For?
Professional baby weighing scales are vital for ensuring accurate and reliable weight measurements so that health professionals such as doctors and midwives are able to monitor a baby’s development and growth.
As well as weighing babies at birth and throughout their infancy, baby weighing scales are also used for acquiring a range of other data such as the baby’s length and breast milk intake.
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Seven Uses of a Weighing Scale
As a leading supplier of weighing scales, Marsden sells thousands of weighing scales each year both across the UK and around the world.
There are endless uses of a weighing scale, from improving efficiency in the warehouse to weighing people, animals, or ensuring you’re paying the correct price for your goods.
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Marsden donates a Patient Transfer Scale to the NHS
The NHS has been going above and beyond this year to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone across the UK is thankful for all of their hard work and dedication during this difficult time.
That's why everyone at here at Marsden has decided to give something back. So, we've donated a Patient Transfer Scale to one lucky ward.
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6 Reasons to Choose Our M-400 Baby Scale (Video)
A professional Class III Approved baby scale will provide accurate weight readings for infants. But how do you know which scale is best?
In our latest video, we provide six reasons why the Marsden M-400 Baby Scale is an essential scale for weighing babies and children - in clinics, surgeries, hospitals and out in the community.
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What Is MUST?
You may have seen us mention MUST a few times in our previous blog posts, such as this blog about accurate weight assessments in care homes. But you may be asking yourself, what is MUST?
MUST, or the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, is a five-step screening tool that is used to identify whether adults are malnourished, at risk of becoming malnutrition or obese.
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The Importance of Accurate, Regular Weight Assessments in Care Homes
“As a care home it is very important to weigh our residents to keep a check on their weight. As some residents may have a poor appetite which will cause them to lose weight, by weighing them regularly this means that we are aware of the matter and what action to take,” said Gemma Storey, Deputy Manager of Chapel View Care Home, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
In 2006 NICE stated that patients should have their body weight measured weekly, on first contact in an outpatient setting, and when there is clinical concern.
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Essential features in baby weighing scales
Weighing your bundle of joy is both an exciting and necessary process. As proud parents, family, and friends, we all love to know how much our babies weigh at birth and often play guessing games or make predictions during the pregnancy.
For medical professionals present at the birth, gaining an accurate weight measurement of the newborn child is a vital, initial observation that provides a starting point for the baby’s growth.