Ambulance with back door cot lift?

[mobey]

Where I work, every Emergency Ambulance is equipped with a lift. They are excellent!

Door on one side, lift on the other.

OK I'm an idiot, but I don't get it.

So you lower the lift to the ground, then roll the cot onto the lift.

Then lower the cot all the way down, then use the lift to load the cot into the ambulance?

To be honest I would rather do it the way we do now, if the other option is to have to lower the cot to the lowest setting with every patient!

Now combine the lift with a hydraulic stretcher..... now your talking.

[spenac]

Now combine the lift with a hydraulic stretcher..... now your talking.

Exactly. Longer careers. Less injuries.

[dsimms]

Majority of UK ambulances will carry a hydralic trolley similar to the one in the link below

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The foot pedal at the back is used to raise and lower the trolley, so the only lifting you have to do is to get the patient out of the house and on to the trolley. As most houses in the UK are much to small to take the trolley into we will either encorage them to walk if they can or use a carrying chair. Alot of the new models of chair are now being designed with features that reduce the amount of lifting that you have to do such as triwheeel systems which stop you having to lift the chair down a flight of stairs.

[spenac]

Anybody in USA with these yet?

[2wheelinemt]

This lifting into the ambulance kits are cool and all but is't lifting into the rig one of the easies things

to do once the pt is loaded. For stryker it is to me, the carrying up and down the steps and such is the hard part, with half the stretcher in the rig thats the lightest and easiest on me at 53 110lbs. i do all my lifting and did like the side of the stretcher till we go the stryker but the stretcher still helps a little with the lifting up to get ready for the rig, except one thing the stryker stands pretty high and for a shorty like myself getting it all the way up to rig level is a challenge.

We issue everyone one of the back braces like the guys at lowes and home depo uses to help with

the back!. Some one told me that the back braces causes back injury. I haven't seen it but if anyone else knows of something I would be happy to hear about it, before some one get hurts on my account!!

i also seen in hawaii the back door is all on unit and slides down like the doors on a fire truck but much big. One big back door!

Edited March 31, 2009 by 2wheelinemt

[zippyRN]

I have lifted a 450+ pound patient with just one other person. If people would learn to use the stretcher to their advantage and evenly distribute the weight it would not be a problem. Try this. The next time you lift a person on the stretcher, instead of lifting from the "traditional" head to toe position, stand on the side of the stretcher. There is a handle on the side to release the wheels there. You and one other person can lift a much heavier weight by lifting in this side position then you can the other way. You are using the physics of the stretcher and your legs better in this position. Let me know what you think after you try this.

that was the answer i nthe Uk 25 years ago , fortunately EU member state legislation and practice has moved on from there ... to power trays for DIN cots or powered lifts / ramps and the yellow locks for ferno mk6 trollies

OK I'm an idiot, but I don't get it.

So you lower the lift to the ground, then roll the cot onto the lift.

Then lower the cot all the way down, then use the lift to load the cot into the ambulance?

Uk trolley cots generally are not moved around when raised ... the old York type cots stayed low until you transferred the patient in the mhospital on the the ED trolley / bed

the current generation of ferno cots work to that model

To be honest I would rather do it the way we do now, if the other option is to have to lower the cot to the lowest setting with every patient!

Now combine the lift with a hydraulic stretcher..... now your talking.

the cot is already at the lowest setting

and the cots are hydraulic anyway