Bariatric emergencies

[mariomike]

Toronto uses ambulance buses to transport bariatric emergencies.

The high floor is a steep lift from the curb.

The City just added a custom built Bariatric ambulance to the fleet. Complete with a bariatric cot and a power lift tailgate.

This should help reduce WSIB claims.

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[Oldgateboatdriver]

Maybe I am missing something here, @mariomike : How is the barometric pressure increased for the patient? Is the whole interior of the ambulance pressurized?

 

[Blackadder1916]

This should help reduce WSIB claims.

How many of those injuries are caused getting an already stretchered patient into the bus vice getting the fat b******d onto the cot and down the stairs, or later during transfer at destination?

Occupational Injury Claims Related to Patient Lifting and Moving in a Safety-Oriented Emergency Medical Services Agency - PMC

Background: Patient lifting injuries remain a significant hazard to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers despite preventative and mitigative strategies. Objective: To better characterize the nature of occupational injury involving patient and ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

. . . Forty-two (51.2%) of these injuries occurred when the provider was lifting, transferring, or carrying a patient, not involving a stretcher. . . .

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Maybe I am missing something here, @mariomike : How is the barometric pressure increased for the patient? Is the whole interior of the ambulance pressurized?

That's what I thought as well, we have had to deal with a number patients requiring barometric chambers after diving accidents.