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Halifax Tar said:
30 years as a rugby player and 25 as a sailor means youve seen some things that you don't talk about with your mother or in church lol.
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Does the Navy still go to the Portland Rose festival? Because in the 80’s that was the Port of Debauchery for 2 and 4 Squadron.
 
Cloud Cover said:
This one is for @mariomike :)
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While I regularly see folks that size where I work, not usually for that reason...I'm also surprised no call for pump assist to get them to and fro.

Helmets on - was doing ride alongs with Kingston EMS in my younger days when posted there. We took a call in the station on the phone for a transfer from KGH to the airport. All I remember was the paramedic answering the phone and then turning white...asked him what was up. Told me a transfer to airport for repatriation...patient was end stage liver failure, came into Kingston at about 325, new estimated weight was closer to 450-475lbs with he extra fluid and such...and our ambulance cots were rated to about 275 maybe 300lbs IIRC in those days. We called for backup for movement...took them down to the ambulance garage on their hospital bed, transferred them to the ambulance and airevac cots and had to secure them with me jerry rigging some triangular bandages for tie downs because the securing straps weren't long enough...took 8 of us to manoeuvre them onto the airplane. Thankfully last call of the shift...helmets off.
 
medicineman said:
While I regularly see folks that size where I work, not usually for that reason...I'm also surprised no call for pump assist to get them to and fro.

Helmets on - was doing ride alongs with Kingston EMS in my younger days when posted there. We took a call in the station on the phone for a transfer from KGH to the airport. All I remember was the paramedic answering the phone and then turning white...asked him what was up. Told me a transfer to airport for repatriation...patient was end stage liver failure, came into Kingston at about 325, new estimated weight was closer to 450-475lbs with he extra fluid and such...and our ambulance cots were rated to about 275 maybe 300lbs IIRC in those days. We called for backup for movement...took them down to the ambulance garage on their hospital bed, transferred them to the ambulance and airevac cots and had to secure them with me jerry rigging some triangular bandages for tie downs because the securing straps weren't long enough...took 8 of us to manoeuvre them onto the airplane. Thankfully last call of the shift...helmets off.
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There was one of those docu-reality show a few years ago - I think it was operations at Edmonton airport but not sure. This episode focused on a fixed-wing medivac service and what they had to do to get a bariatric patient into the aircraft. They basically had to rig up an inclined roller bed from the land ambulance into the a/c then turn 90*. They were essentially loading warm cargo.
 
lenaitch said:
There was one of those docu-reality show a few years ago - I think it was operations at Edmonton airport but not sure. This episode focused on a fixed-wing medivac service and what they had to do to get a bariatric patient into the aircraft. They basically had to rig up an inclined roller bed from the land ambulance into the a/c then turn 90*. They were essentially loading warm cargo.
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Yup...days you wished they were using a ramp load plane like a Buff or a Herc...
 
Cloud Cover said:
Does the Navy still go to the Portland Rose festival? Because in the 80’s that was the Port of Debauchery for 2 and 4 Squadron.
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No idea, I am not a sandy bottom sailor ;)

medicineman said:
While I regularly see folks that size where I work, not usually for that reason...I'm also surprised no call for pump assist to get them to and fro.
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That doesn't mean never lol
 
medicineman said:
While I regularly see folks that size where I work, not usually for that reason...I'm also surprised no call for pump assist to get them to and fro.

Helmets on - was doing ride alongs with Kingston EMS in my younger days when posted there. We took a call in the station on the phone for a transfer from KGH to the airport. All I remember was the paramedic answering the phone and then turning white...asked him what was up. Told me a transfer to airport for repatriation...patient was end stage liver failure, came into Kingston at about 325, new estimated weight was closer to 450-475lbs with he extra fluid and such...and our ambulance cots were rated to about 275 maybe 300lbs IIRC in those days. We called for backup for movement...took them down to the ambulance garage on their hospital bed, transferred them to the ambulance and airevac cots and had to secure them with me jerry rigging some triangular bandages for tie downs because the securing straps weren't long enough...took 8 of us to manoeuvre them onto the airplane. Thankfully last call of the shift...helmets off.
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Did you take bets on whether the cot would fail?
 
Staff Weenie said:
Did you take bets on whether the cot would fail?
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I would place my bet on whether the crews backs would fail first.

All we had were the old Ferno-Washington #30 and #9, for anyone old enough to remember them.

Now, they have power stretchers and power stair chairs.

We used 27' OBI Orion ll buses equipped with fully low rear floor for bariatric patients.

Use air pressure to squat and raise the rear-end. Load via back door.





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mariomike said:
I would place my bet on whether the crews backs would fail first.

All we had were the old Ferno-Washington #30 and #9, for anyone old enough to remember them.

Now, they have power stretchers and power stair chairs.

We used 27' OBI Orion ll buses equipped with fully low rear floor for bariatric patients.

Use air pressure to squat and raise the rear-end. Load via back door.





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A pimped put low rider ambulance. Very Gangstah!
 
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