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Your Heavyweight Table Options
High weight capacity is a must-have feature of today's operating room tables.
Lynne Ingle

Hercules. Alphamaxx. Cmax. Operon D 850. Just as patients are getting bigger, so, too, are the names of some of today's surgical tables. They scream super heavyweight, sturdy and strong. Rest easy, they say: We're built to hold patients that are a lot bigger than they used to be.

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