the 100% directionless thread

[GMCmedic]

Not a manual though?

If there is a 3rd rider or fire help available sure.

 

[Seirende]

I'm thankful that patient size is now limited.

Did you stop taking people over over a certain size?

 

[CALEMT]

Did you stop taking people over over a certain size?

Helicopters have weight limits.

 

[PotatoMedic]

Helicopters have weight limits.

Tell that to a Chinook.

 

[DragonClaw]

Tell that to a Chinook.

Plus they're very fast

 

[DragonClaw]

If there is a 3rd rider or fire help available sure.

...?

You said you always double lift a battery gurney. Do you not do this for manual gurneys?

 

[GMCmedic]

Tell that to a Chinook.

Ive been trying to talk our company into a mass casualty chinook . We happen to have two chinook pilots at our base.

 

[DragonClaw]

Ive been trying to talk our company into a mass casualty chinook . We happen to have two chinook pilots at our base.

 

[DragonClaw]

are chinook vs black hawk vs super sea stallion much different than civilian craft? Could a regular life flight pilot figure it out in a pinch?

 

[CCCSD]

Yes, it's definitely a "Do you even lift bro".

Ah well I do kg now for pt wt. It's medicine. We're metric when possible.

And ANOTHER post from an injury prone provider...

 

[DragonClaw]

And ANOTHER post from an injury prone provider...

Asking if someone knows their safe lifting limits??

 

[Jim37F]

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[DragonClaw]

Well. Got in my first crash. No. I wasn't driving.

 

[VFlutter]

Helicopters have weight limits.

We can lift a 600lb patient most days. Our stretcher maxes out at 650

 

[CALEMT]

We can lift a 600lb patient most days. Our stretcher maxes out at 650

600 pound patient in the back of a helicopter... yeah no thank you.

 

[Aprz]

600 pound patient in the back of a helicopter... yeah no thank you.

What about 600 lbs of pizza and ice cream?

 

[DragonClaw]

What about 600 lbs of pizza and ice cream?

I'm hungry....

 

[DragonClaw]

Y'all ever been to court over a company related MVC?

 

[Aprz]

Y'all ever been to court over a company related MVC?

Never. I've been involved in a couple of collisions, but never the driver or at fault.

 

[CALEMT]

Y'all ever been to court over a company related MVC?

Nope.