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bedside to the patient

French translation: placez l'unité de base au chevet/lit du patient

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English term or phrase:bedside to the patient
French translation:placez l'unité de base au chevet/lit du patient
Entered by: Drmanu49

11:51 Aug 29, 2018
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments / bedside to the patient
English term or phrase: bedside to the patient
Bonjour,

J'ai un petit doute sur cette phrase "Place the base unit bedside to the patient." Je pensais à : "placez l'unité de base sur la table de chevet du patient".

Merci :)
Séverine torralba
France
Local time: 11:41
placez l'unité de base au chevet/lit du patient
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Drmanu49
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Local time: 11:41
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4 +6placez l'unité de base au chevet/lit du patient
Drmanu49
2avec le côté « lit » tourné vers le patient
Tony M


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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
placez l'unité de base au chevet/lit du patient


Explanation:
IMO

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 11:41
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Asker: Merci :)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Eric Nega
6 mins
  -> Thank you.
neutral  Tony M: Difficult to really see how one can get to that from the s/t syntax as it stands...
25 mins
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
32 mins
  -> Thank you Gilles.
agree  mchd
58 mins
  -> Thank you.
neutral  B D Finch: Only if the English is seriously faulty!
1 hr
agree  Jennifer White: I would think this is right, given the current craze for using "side" with everything - airside, courtside, rinkside etc etc...
1 hr
  -> Thank you.
agree  Germaine: au chevet/à la tête du lit
8 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  writeaway
1 day 22 hrs
  -> Thank you P.
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
avec le côté « lit » tourné vers le patient


Explanation:
positionnez l'unité de base avec le côté « lit » tourné vers le patient

That is the only logical interpretation I can give to the syntax as it stands — that the unit has a 'bed' side and (presumably) some kind of front panel or 'nurse' side!

I have a device a bit like this (CPAP), and it's always a bit difficult to know which way round to position it for the best.

It might, of course, help if we knew what this unit is actually for? Do you have any pictures?

Tony M
France
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 64

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  B D Finch: That's how I read it. Anything else would require the assumption that the source text is badly written by someone with a poor grasp of English.
56 mins
  -> Thanks, B! No doubt the wider context will make it properly clear.
disagree  Germaine: C'est quoi, le côté "lit" d'un "medical instrument" ?? Bedside to: au chevet = à la tête du lit du patient // Alors tu mets le côté "lit" à gauche ou à droite?
7 hrs
  -> They do often have a side to which the medcial personnel need to have easy access, and also, a side where the connections for the patient need to face the bed. However, we are woefully lacking in context, and we don't even know if this is AE?
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