Are the taillifts not to do with back injuries for paramedics
All stretcher cases ,wheel chairs use the tail lifts , dead lifts are outlawed by health and safety.
Bear in mind that if your talking about a 4x4 ambulance, so the chances are the casualty had been carried at least a few hundred metres on a lightweight stretcher across broken ground( not the trolley type stretcher in an ambulance).
The fact that someone may have a spinal injury only means the likes of their battle vest cannot be removed increasing the weight of a casualty to lift into the back of the vehicle.
But the patient still has to be taken out, most likely no longer on this lightweight stretcher, possibly connected to numerous life preserving equipment.
Given the crew of an ambulance is two persons, when you arrive at the hospital where the casualty is to be treated, most serious cases go directly to an ED.. getting the casualty poses a greater risk as patient lifting hoists are not designed to reach into vehicles.
Walking wounded only I fear.
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