Always hold on to the stretcher

[EMT2PAC]

Don't let this happen to you. Ouch.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=297_1351279913

 

[leoemt]

That looked fake to me. But ouch, real or fake its a good lesson

 

[WolfmanHarris]

We did an internal training video this year that was two of our Captains in Education dumping the stretcher in every way you could think off. They had a Benny Hill-ish soundtrack. Kept it informative but kinda funny.

 

[Achilles]

Was that Sam berstein holding a camera just waiting for it to happen.
I agree with Leo it looks pretty fake.

 

[bigbaldguy]

Looked real to me. One of the wheels didn't pivot and stretcher went over when he turned corner. I did that with a shopping cart once.

 

[mycrofft]

That guy took a doorway in the upper chest and almost in the chin. If it was staged, he's in hurting status NOW!
Actually, I was trying to se which country that was in. Reminded me of stories about Turkish military and rural EMS.

 

[bigbaldguy]

That guy took a doorway in the upper chest and almost in the chin. If it was staged, he's in hurting status NOW!
Actually, I was trying to se which country that was in. Reminded me of stories about Turkish military and rural EMS.

I was thinking eastern European but you can see AMBO on the door of the truck so not Cyrillic.

 

[abckidsmom]

Like humans in the back of a moving vehicle, the cot needs three points of contact at all times: the wheels and two hands (two hands of one person if not moving), two sets of hands if moving.

Anything less is asking for trouble.

 

[Tigger]

That better have been a dummy if it was fake...

I've also seen the exact same thing happen with an empty cot before.

 

[Sublime]

Looked real to me. This should be an educational video to show all emt students why two people need to be holding the stretcher every time you have a patient on it.

 

[bigbaldguy]

Dumping a stretcher with a patient on it is one of the reasons they give for having your own liability policy. I managed to tip over an empty cot on my third shift. I managed to catch it before it went completely over but I'll tell you what I've helped upright a full size tricked out Harley with less effort. Stryker stretchers go down hard.