But as a nurse, she handled patients that weighed up to 600 pounds.

A low arousal approach deals with how staff handles patients who are easily aroused (in a non-sexual sense).

Very little guidance is provided to doctors for handling malingering patients.

The new facility has a larger number of intensive care beds to handle patients in the aftermath of disasters.

For example, some ambulances are not equipped to handle patients who need a respirator.

After 1955 the hospital also handled patients with mental illnesses.

Handling extremely overweight patients - moving them, bathing them - can require several people, when one might do with a person of ordinary size.

"We help provide the preliminary information they need to make decisions about whether to restrict access or quarantine an area, and how to handle patients."

Father Rossetti said the institute had not been set up to handle acutely ill patients.

An elderly man, he knew well enough how to handle recalcitrant patients; he only liked to complain for the fun of it.