Ambulance stretcher for sale
Posted by juliabennet on April 5th, 2013
A call in the middle of the night, from a fallen building or a fire misted house, on a rough terrain, in the mountains or through debris, a stretcher for sale destined for the ambulance or other emergency intervention units must be able to face the most unpredictable situations. It has to transport even the most severely injured victim in the safest conditions, it must be resistant enough to damage and flexible enough to smoothly adjust itself according to the suffering person’s type of injure and the emergency intervention team’s needs for providing the first aid.
The physical extraction, movement and transportation of patients outside the hospital are a core component of the emergency service (EMS) care. The stryker stretcher that fulfills this role may be in extreme situations or due to lack of proper maintenance the subject of numerous adverse events associated with its operation. Among these can be counted the ambulance stretcher’s total collapse, missing, broken or malfunctioning parts, an unwanted drop or fall, a tilting over stretcher without apparent reason, injury caused to one of the rescuer during the intervention process and failure of the stretcher’s fastening system. Although the stryker stretcher comes from a highly reliable manufacturer, commercializing medical equipment for over 70 years, after over-use or lack of repair, they become at risk of malfunctions of the above mentioned order.
An ambulance stretcher for sale is structurally made of steel and covered by a foamed cushion, with a waterproof surface material. It can feature shelves, hooks or poles for perfusions or other medical equipment according to needs. There are also specialized bariatric ambulance stretchers that come with a wider frame for overweight patients. In this case, the presence of hydraulic or mechanical devices for automatically collapsing or raising the legs are necessary since a manual operation of this type would certainly cause the rescuing team serious back injuries.
Multiple types of ambulance stretchers exist, ranging from simple to highly sophisticated. The simple stretcher has been used since ancient times, being extremely rudimentary in its form, lightweight and portable. Today, it’s used mainly by the military in emergency cases. The folding stretcher is similar in design with the simple one but it can be collapsed for easier transportation or allowing the patient to stand in upright position. The scoop stretcher can be split in two halves longitudinally, being used for lifting patients from the ground without previously moving them but placing the stretcher under their back and then closing the two halves. The reeves stretcher is flexible enough as to move the patient when found in difficult, narrow places. The Stokes basket fulfills the same role, being equipment destined for difficult terrain interventions.
Regardless of what type of stretcher is chosen, a stryker stretcher or not, the emergency team should take all measures for preventing the occurrence of adverse events to which the ambulance stretcher is probably the most prone to, since it’s the most solicited. Whatever it’s a user error, committed by a faulty equipment operator, or a use error, having its roots in an incompatible design that causes multiple difficulties, it should always be kept in mind that the first aid intervention in emergency cases it’s probably the most critical phase. If a patient’s situation is worsened now due to such adversities, it will considerably and negatively affect his future medical treatment.
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