By Joe Teehan April 19, 2021 10:16 am
KGMI Whatcom Fire District 1
WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. – Every fire department ambulance in Whatcom County now carries a state-of-the-art gurney.
Whatcom County Emergency Medical Services manager Michael Hilley says the mobile stretchers from the Stryker company are a big improvement.
Most of the ambulances now have a matched power system that lifts the gurney and the patient into the ambulance.
That helps protect EMS personnel and patients from potential injury.
And having uniform gurneys across the system means they can be swapped when patients have to be transferred between vehicles.
That has sometimes been required under difficult weather or other conditions with the old un-matched gurneys.