Comments on: Ambulance…the Final Frontier…!!!

By: Medevac

Medevac — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:33:35 +0000

Yeah, It’s looks great and really an interesting thing, thanks a lot.

By: kingmagic

kingmagic — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:35:53 +0000

BG…would love to dislocate some heads with a baseball bat but management would frown at the potential litigation. x

piratedani…we had some vehicles once where the management thought snot coloured cupboards would be a good idea. It just made the inside look mucky all the time. Not a good look!

Rach…us staff are always fantastic! Its a curse at times! The suspension on ambulances is a joke! x

Medic999…thanks.

Deborah Parr…ouch! Hope you still had some stitches left at the end of the journey?

Wimby…since moving onto diesel trucks there is no power in the lower gears! I dont think diesel engines should be used for ambulance work!

Jake…British who?

Eileen…sounds familiar. I was sent on a 4×4 driving course…absolutely loved it, brill time motoring up hills and through mud puddles etc only thing is…I work in a big city where we dont have 4x4s.

emmbee…like your thinking. I was thinking of having an ejector stretcher in the back for the numpties who kick off. Push of a button and off they fly through the skylight (oops we dont have skylights anymore!).

By: emmbee

emmbee — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:12:00 +0000

First off I’d have hose clean saloons. Sort of like those automatic public toilets.
Next an airhorn. A proper, 400 decibel, “get out of my f***ing way” airhorn.
Then a grab arm on the side, like some council bin lorries have. Thats to pick up drunks following window triage

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:47:38 +0000

Don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard yas are buying new ambos that are 4-wheel drive but they are being used to replace ones dying in Leeds and such places. Meanwhile in the sticks (i.e. up the moors) they are sent out in snow and ice on single track roads with summer tyres and no chains. I know chains don’t exactly improve the ride of anything – but it might stop the front page piccys of an ambulancce lying on its side. And that has to hurt more than a speed bump.
My only ride in an ambulance was in Italy down a mountain road with hairpin bends with a nasty break and no pain relief. I felt every bend but other than that it wasn’t too uncomfortable really. That was in a VW van conversion from 15/16 years ago – they were used all over the German-speaking part of Europe. The ones here (Italy) nowadays look dead snazzy, rather more streamlined than the boxes in Britain. Must remember to ask one of the guys at the bottom of the cable cars waiting for broken skiers what they’re like to drive!

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:17:22 +0000

Stop buying them from British Leyland?

By: Wimby

Wimby — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:35:13 +0000

A proper bloody engine (not a 2.4 diesel towing a small house). And an air horn.

Swast give you neither!

By: Deborah Parr

Deborah Parr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:47:42 +0000

I was transferred in one a few hours post-Caesarean – every bend in the road, I felt in the stitches!

By: My new ambulance!! « Medic999

My new ambulance!! « Medic999 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:03:51 +0000

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By: Rach

Rach — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:23:19 +0000

It’s strange you should ask that but I was reading patient opinion site the other day and someone had actually complained about the ambulance, said the staff where fantastic but the ambulance was an uncomfortable ride…..must admit the last time I was in one I was in that much pain I really don’t think I noticed…xx

By: piratedani

piratedani — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:41:47 +0000

I have been in one once. My father fell off a ladder while window cleaning and shattered his ankle.

Wasnt particularly interesting. The back stank of vomit and the color of the interior was very ‘green’

I do remember that they took the long route to the hospital. We went to Hemel Hempstead General, which as someone else explained should be called Hemel Humpstead due to all the speed bumps.