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Tags: Chicago FD receives Stryker Power-PRO XT cots, Chicago FD to add power cots to ambulances, Chicago Fire Department, overtime for paramedics due to injuries

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12 Comments

• #1 by Craig Mack on November 29, 2017 - 11:24 PM

  

  That’s funny that you say that because THAT DAY I was told by the people that are literally doing the training for the cfd that they will NOT fit the stairchairs in the ambos any longer. Sometimes the best advice to take is your own!

• #2 by Ed M on November 29, 2017 - 11:04 AM

  

  If anyone bothered to check instead of just spouting off, these cots are the exact same dimensions as the Stryker manual cots that are already in use.

• #3 by KL on November 29, 2017 - 8:33 AM

  

  Thanks Chuck. I really think some of these people who comment have no clue. I just shake my head and laugh.

• #4 by Matthew G on November 29, 2017 - 8:31 AM

  

  Why would they be moving the mounting system in the current ambulances? The power cots fit the current cot mounts and do not take up anymore room than the old manual Stryker cots. Ive used both in the ambulances I work on and we dont have to do anything special if I have to switch cots. These do not look like the have the “wings” Stryker uses to in an attempt to accomodate bigger people so there shouldnt be any space constraints inside the ambulance like it would be with the Power-Load system.

• #5 by Ed M on November 29, 2017 - 5:49 AM

  

  158 years unimpeded by progress.

• #6 by Chuck on November 29, 2017 - 1:26 AM

  

  CFD doing bariatric patients happens very infrequently. And we used to transfer patients outside all the time in winter, especially when we had the E-350 vans. The stretcher very rarely came out of the apparatus into a residence, and judging from the size of this monstrosity, you will NEVER see a stretcher brought into a private residence EVER. Unless it’s an apartment building or an office building. More decisions made by people with no clue who haven’t been on an ambulance in forever, IF ever.

• #7 by Craig Mack on November 28, 2017 - 11:19 PM

  

  Apparently they’re going to be mounted just enough over that they will no longer fit the chair. It’s tight now, so any loss of space pretty much means that idea is out the window

• #8 by Wayne on November 28, 2017 - 10:28 PM

  

  Unless I’m missing something this shouldn’t change how CFD operates at all unless they change how the cots are mounted in the ambulance.

• #9 by Craig Mack on November 28, 2017 - 9:52 PM

  

  Thank you! If you know how the cfd actually operates on ambulance calls you would know how huge of a deal this is. If they have a bariatric patient, you have the man power on scene to safely raise the regular stretcher. This is not the norm tho. The overwhelming majority of the time the patient is wheeled to the back of the ambulance in the stairchair, then picked up, and transferred on to the cot in the ambulance. Now they will have to bring the cot in and out every single time, thus actually INCREASING the possibility of back injury. Remember, these are just the power cots, NOT the power load system.

• #10 by Bill on November 28, 2017 - 9:28 PM

  

  He is right. instead of transferring people the ambulance when it is 0 degrees outside. They will now be forced to move grandma in the freezing cold outside. Technology is great but sometimes people need to apply it.

• #11 by KL on November 28, 2017 - 8:19 PM

  

  Wow!!! That is just a really stupid comment.

• #12 by Craig Mack on November 28, 2017 - 8:01 PM

  

  Worst idea ever. Cfd will no longer be able to stairchair in to the back of the ambulance as they do on 90% of the calls. Very dumb.

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