Warsaw. New ambulances for Warsaw. The first bariatric ambulance
Warsaw paramedics have the first ambulance at their disposal to transport obese patients. On Tuesday, Marshal of Mazovia, Adam Struzik, handed over the vehicle to rescuers from Meditrans.
– The ambulance service is more and more frequently updated in the medical bar, because we have more and more care – says the rescue team, anesthesiologist Janusz Krzysztof Kujawa. He admits that rescuers often deal with modern ones weighing 260-300 kg. – In such a situation, it appears many times, starting with the elevation of the state with the board -.
“There was a problem with the evacuation”
Dr. Kujawa explains that the explanation for the ambulance is a solid stretcher with a load capacity of 400 kg. They slide out gently with the vehicle on large shoulders and unfold thanks to the movement mechanism. Thanks to them, you can conveniently create your own and put them in an ambulance.
Kujawa has many years of experience. He mentions he lived to a patient who weighed about 280 kg. “There was a problem with the evacuation because the sounds have a load capacity of 130 kg,” he says. -We had to improvise – the doctors continue. The rescuers called the fire brigade for help. They took out the oak door and placed the sick man on it. When we finally managed to carry it to the street, it turned out that the door with the patient did not fit in the ambulance. A sick plan to deposit in a delivery truck and thus turn into a state.
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Another time, Dr. Kujawa’s crew was called to see a patient with a heart attack. The sick person lived on the fifth floor. It was lying in a room at the end of the corridor that was behind the wardrobes and was about 1.5 meters wide. The live weighed 360 kg. – the problem of how to go evacuate. The corridor was too narrow – recalls the doctor. And this time firefighters came to the rescue. A car with a swing basket pulled up in front of the house and a man needing help was slid out the window. Now it was time to smoke again.
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Thanks to the fact that the Warsaw emergency service already has a bariatric ambulance, sacrificial help with significant obesity will be safe. The ambulance, apart from the most modern medical equipment, is also supposed to check the load capacity; to drive it, you have a “C” driving license entitling you to operate vehicles with cultivation of more than 3.5 tons.
One of the organizations
The bariatric career is one of the others that we symbolized by the Provincial Emergency Ambulance and Sanitary Transport Station “Meditrans” SPZOZ, Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship, Adam Struzik.
Struzik at the beginning of the five-star state, that from the beginning of the first station, the marshals had acquired and allocated PLN 1.5 billion in the infrastructure of hospitals and emergency stations.
Payable value of ambulances with equipment up to almost five million zlotys.
Ambulanes were renovated from an EU project by the Office of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.
Technical base of “Meditrans” at Woronicza. Ambulances lined up for disinfection
Photo Source: Marshal’s Office of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship