What About The Ambulance Stretcher Support?

Loading and unloading patient from the ambulance is really important. But also safety, sanitisation and space are essential too. Don’t forget to find the right equipment for your ambulance, like stretcher support.

When an ambulance is sold to empower the fleet there are a good number of questions to solve. The first commandment you have when planning your new ambulance is “safety”.  In this field, the ambulance stretcher support really makes the difference.

High injury and fatality rates among EMS Professionals underscore the need for safer and more resilient ambulance design and construction, more efficient patient compartment layouts that allow EMSP (EMS Professionals) to be seated and restrained while tending to patients, and ergonomically designed workspaces that keep EMSP and their patients safe and comfortable and EMSP productive while performing their tasks. There’s an interesting guideline from the Department of Homeland Security (U.S.) and it reads as follows: EMS professionals routinely perform essential medical care as they stabilize patients at emergency scenes and provide treatment “en route” to medical facilities.

What advantages do I want to achieve? How the stretcher support can help me?

The most important issues for the crew’s experience are connected with the activities that EMS Professionals are consistently doing during their shift. This is the reason why a lot of EMS providers are creating specialized teams to plan the design of the work area in the patient compartment. Professionals in EMS know that the ambulance is THE OFFICE  and it has to be equipped with some medical working tools and if your instruments are made for specific functions, why doesn’t anyone give space the same consideration?

Why is the patient’s position so important and how the stretcher support can help in this topic?

It is quite normal that EMS Professionals who are planning the new patient compartment apply different schemes but there is a focal rule: the job-to-be-done. It is a logic scheme for business that is also really useful when applied to EMS. Objects that you put in the ambulance must be there to produce advantages and reduce problems so the rule has to consider what you want from your compartment: The answer? Patient’s health.

The first activity you have to focus on is how you are going to load and unload stretcher bound patients. The second is about operating on the patient during transport. The usual EMS Professional routine is:

On-site: unload stretcher;

load the patient on the stretcher;

load stretcher on an ambulance;

move stretcher support closer to the patient;

move stretcher support away to open a secondary bay (or shaft);

tilt, until, lift up or lock the stretcher platform position to assist the patient as needed;

A&E: unload stretcher, leave patient and go back to HQ;

 Last but not least, ambulance stretcher support provides a move that will be comfortable for the patient. When you are planning your new ambulance, you have also to consider patient comfort.