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Question by Riley: Why don't ambulance services use the H- Frame style cot anymore?
I am a junior EMT on our local volunteer ambulance service and I could never get an answer anybody, even the ambulance director herself. We used the EZPRO R-3 Rugged model from Stryker but she told me we just switched to X- Frame because it was what the city decided to buy.
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Answer by Jim B
I spent 13 years working for Metropolitan Toronto Ambulance Services , the largest EMS service in Canada, with over 800 paramedics on staff. It is the only EMS service in Toronto, and it is a city department, with 40 stations.
The biggest reason that we got rid of the old Stryker cots was the need to do a "dead lift ", from the ground , to get it to the floor level of the vehicle. A killer when the pt is 400 pounds.
The old units did not have the ability to "roll into the truck, " like the new ones do, with folding legs. The old ones were back breakers, and that was one of the reasons that I had to quit and go into other lines of work.
My career was from 1977 to 1990 , so the equipment has changed, of course, but those old units were hard to work with, and the side bars were famous for catching the skin web on your hand, between the thumb and index finger. Kinda smarts, when that happens.( grin )
Here is a link to the Toronto EMS website, take a look and see how we do it up here in Canada's largest city with a population of 4 million people, and 1,300 emergency medical calls per day.
http://www.torontoems.ca/
Jim B. Toronto.
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