Sometimes, the agony patients feel in an ambulance, is not only due to pre-health hazards but as a result of needle injuries in patient compartments of the vehicle. It is about time that non-emergency transportation services redesign the vehicles for them to better suit the patients and the attendees accompanying them.

The changes in the non-emergency transportation department require approval by government agencies and sometimes additional changes in the federal ambulance specifications. The efforts might or might not bear many fruits but it is, however, essential to take a step as an industry to make these changes happen for the betterment of the people of the society.

Here’s what the non-emergency transportation system is working on:

Every vehicle that travels on the road should have an air bag system; no matter the size or shape. The authorities are trying to engineer air bag systems into all emergency response vehicles. The ambulance, for example, should be free from sharp edged or any other unsecured equipment as they can prove to be hazardous for the patients.

The location of the attendant seat in an ambulance usually is near the head of the patient. If you’ve seen the contemporary medical soap operas on television, you must have noticed the way caretakers sit in an optimal position in order to access and visualize their patient’s airway at all times. For this, you need to adjust the seating of the attendant and patient. The development of the transportation system is making sure to create distance between objects and individuals. They are also making seats which can be elevated and met with the needs of the patients and everybody else inside the vehicle.

The aspect which has changed rather dramatically under non-emergency transport system is the height of the stretchers while they are in their collapsed position on the floor of an ambulance. Contemporary stretchers are lower in their design and therefore, lower to the ground of the patient compartment. The only way the attendant can access the patient’s arm or torso is either too lean over or to unbuckle the seat belt.

The new transport system is working on the patient department specifically rather than changing the entire interior of an ambulance. A more efficient method of elevating a stretcher and making it flexible would be to have the stretcher rolled onto the platform. This way it can move backward, forward, left or right. This calls for better airway control, electrode placement and CPR if needed.

It’s about time that out old ambulance designs experienced an architectural shift under the transport development system. They are making use of resources by examining what the hospitals, aeromedical and military counterparts have contributed towards patient care by making transport safer and efficient by incorporating the above-mentioned ideas into future ambulances.

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