Highest BMI you have seen?

[Psai]

Shattering my previous record, new patient on our service: 139.

I didn't know this was possible. Made me curious so I looked up the highest ever and apparently it's 185 according to wikipedia
Jon Brower Minnoch - Wikipedia

the old dog even married a lady and fathered two children. Gotta say, I am definitely impressed.

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[Premed2295]

I didn't know this was possible. Made me curious so I looked up the highest ever and apparently it's 185 according to wikipedia
Jon Brower Minnoch - Wikipedia

the old dog even married a lady and fathered two children. Gotta say, I am definitely impressed.

Patients be like
“I’m tall see that I’m 6’1”. I’m not overweight

 

[mimelim]

I've had a couple of 80+ BMI. Had to put a central line in someone with a spinal needle a couple weeks ago...

 

[Donald Juan]

Today. BMI of 59. Patient was HYPERthyroid. Yes, that is correct, hyper not hypo. Dr was dumbfounded, and said she should have been losing weight with her condition and he’s not sure why she is not. Patient said she’s been big her entire life, and she doesnt feel that she’s overweight, because she’s been big as long as she can remember. Her BMI again, is 59. We had to treat the hyperthyroidism because of the other problems it was causing, but the doctor told the patient she has to lose weight anyway. Patient denies that she has to lose weight. Her A1C was 6.4 and her fasting glucose was 124. I suppose she’s on a mission to be diabetic. (We were impressed she isn’t yet...)

Just FYI, type 2 DM is very familial, and while it can typically be diet controlled in many patients who acquire it, there seems to be some patients that just never get it no matter how fat they are, and some who get it even though they are only mildly overweight.

 

[Psai]

I've had a couple of 80+ BMI. Had to put a central line in someone with a spinal needle a couple weeks ago...

At that point I'd be like you did this to yourself good luck in your future endeavours

 

[nimbus]

Speaking of which.....

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[SouthernGent]

Speaking of which.....

traxi Panniculus Retractor

Now I know which company to invest in first. Thank you to you, and thank you to fast food.

 

[nimbus]

Now I know which company to invest in first. Thank you to you, and thank you to fast food.

Thank Google ads. It was at the bottom of this thread.

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

Thank Google ads. It was at the bottom of this thread.

I could seriously use one of those in my neck of the woods.

 

[RNthenDoc]

Speaking of which.....

traxi Panniculus Retractor

Scroll down to the endorsement at the bottom:

“This product is a winner . . . a big-time winner.”
– James Greenberg, MD

...I want to get a beer with Jim Greenberg.

 

[Psai]

I could seriously use one of those in my neck of the woods.

Google ads are everywhere I'm surprised you don't get them already

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

Google ads are everywhere I'm surprised you don't get them already

Lol. We just use silk tape like a bunch of plebs

 

[Smurfette]

Lol. We just use silk tape like a bunch of plebs

Same. It looks like a big sheet of tegaderm to me. So maybe a poor man's version would involve using Ioban or Tegaderm to hold up the pannus by pulling it in the right direction?

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

Same. It looks like a big sheet of tegaderm to me. So maybe a poor man's version would involve using Ioban or Tegaderm to hold up the pannus by pulling it in the right direction?

I’ve done it with ioban. Ick.

 

[RNthenDoc]

Wait you guys don’t make the Med students hold the panniculus?!

Scheduling my away now.

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

Wait you guys don’t make the Med students hold the panniculus?!

Scheduling my away now.

I fear I wouldn’t find the med student in the folds again if I tried that.

 

[Melanogaster]

The highest BMI I've ever seen was about 80 on my surgery rotation, got a nice workout there.

 

[Psai]

As a medical student on ICU, I held back a fat pannus for a femoral line that took an hour. I was sweating and shaking by the end, had to sit down for a bit.

A short while later on vascular, I watched the surgery resident just silk tape the pannus back and I cursed out the IM resident in my head.