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Ambulance hydraulic lifts reduce first responders’ back problems

Emergency response can be backbreaking work.

Until recently, there was only one way to move a patient, on a cot, into an ambulance — the two-man lift. Since switching to a hydraulic system Flossmoor has seen a dramatic reduction in back injuries, Damm said.

  Flossmoor firefighter/paramedic Tom Slayton
  demonstrates the Stryker lift unit. That greenish
  light shows where the arm on the device is located.

  (Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle)

 

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