Brigala
CPST Instructor
http://koin.com/2014/04/21/ambulance-crashes-transporting-3-year-old/
This just got me thinking about how many of us aren't quite sure what the proper way to transport a (non-critical) child in an ambulance is. Obviously if the child is in really bad shape, restraint is secondary to just keeping the child breathing en route to the hospital. But how many of us know how to install a car seat on an ambulance gurney? This is something that even confuses a lot of techs... let alone parents who are stuck trying to figure out how to safely transport kiddo to the hospital. It's not as if ambulance rides are something most parents plan for.
Around here, a lot of our techs are AMR employees, so I'm going to make a wild guess that this child was being transported pretty safely since no additional injuries were reported at the scene of the crash.
This just got me thinking about how many of us aren't quite sure what the proper way to transport a (non-critical) child in an ambulance is. Obviously if the child is in really bad shape, restraint is secondary to just keeping the child breathing en route to the hospital. But how many of us know how to install a car seat on an ambulance gurney? This is something that even confuses a lot of techs... let alone parents who are stuck trying to figure out how to safely transport kiddo to the hospital. It's not as if ambulance rides are something most parents plan for.
Around here, a lot of our techs are AMR employees, so I'm going to make a wild guess that this child was being transported pretty safely since no additional injuries were reported at the scene of the crash.