USMA,
Here in Arkansas
units measured seems to be specific to each individual hospital or
clinic. We had a child born in 2002 and the electronic hospital scales
were strictly grams. They flashed the FFU units to me, thinking I wanted
to know this information, but all measurements were taken and recorded
otherwise.
We just had a baby
in another hospital (due to switch in medical insurance) 2 weeks ago and in this
case all units were FFU with conversion charts nearby. The medical records
were also recorded in FFU, much to my dismay.
Now our pediatrician
clinic uses SI exclusively. At each child's checkup we are given height in
cm and weight in kg on the "take home" form, which is most encouraging.
Also, recently the formula used in calculating medical doses for our
children uses body mass in kg. Now my wife finally see the benefit of
the years of me drilling her on the Metric System as she knows the conversions
factors from FFU as well as she now has to flip the kg switch on our electronic
scale.
Mike
Panfil
