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#1

No comment from me is necessary. This speaks for itself!
CF

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Las Vegas Uses Enlarged Ambulance to Handle Obese Patients

LAS VEGAS (March 29) - An ambulance company has responded to oversize needs
in southern Nevada by providing an ambulance equipped to handle patients
weighing 500 pounds or more.
            
     American Medical Response
American Medical Response retrofitted this vehicle for larger patients.

"We're getting more and more requests to transport larger patients every
day," said Roy Carroll, operations manager at American Medical Response, one of
two companies with Clark County Fire Department contracts to provide medical
transport in and around Las Vegas.

Crews have called 75 times in the last six months for additional manpower to
handle morbidly obese patients, said Chris Piper, a western regional spokesman
for Greenwood, Colo.-based AMR. He said the largest patients weighed more
than 500 pounds.

Carroll, in Las Vegas, called handling large patients difficult and unsafe
for patients, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

"Not only does this person not fit, there's a chance he or she could fall,"
Carroll said. "Our job is to get that patient to where they need to be safely
and in a dignified manner. Traditional ambulances can't do that."

The company recently put into service a $250,000 bariatric ambulance, which
looks like its other 80 ambulances, but is extra-wide and has a larger gurney,
a winch and ramps capable of loading up to 1,600 pounds.

Clark County spokesman Bob Leinbach called the need for the larger ambulances
obvious.

"If you don't think it's needed, all you have to do is look around," Leinbach
said. "Americans are heavier."

The county's other ambulance provider is awaiting delivery of a bariatric
ambulance and recently bought four electric gurneys capable of handling patients
weighing up to 750 pounds, said Matthew Cox, a spokesman for MedicWest
Ambulance.

"There's less stress on the paramedics' backs and it's a better stabilizer
for the patient," Cox said.

Of Nevada's 1.7 million adult residents in 2004, the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the state Health Division estimated that 21
percent, or about 357,000, were obese.

03/29/06 16:55 EST

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#2

An example of why common sense abounds in my articles and statements.
When written as responsibly as I present, they ALWAYS have their
redeeming day either in the court of public opinion or on the street.
Let's see how little dicky selectively interprets this one. Of
course, that other guy who whimpers about me being a 'bully' might
want to pass over this, but the dicker will more than make up for his
cowering.
(I have to admit CF--even though true it makes me laugh just as much
as dicky's flow of baloney!)

No comment from me is necessary. This speaks for itself!
CF
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Las Vegas Uses Enlarged Ambulance to Handle Obese Patients

LAS VEGAS (March 29) - An ambulance company has responded to

oversize needs

in southern Nevada by providing an ambulance equipped to handle

patients

weighing 500 pounds or more.
            
     American Medical Response
American Medical Response retrofitted this vehicle for larger

patients.

"We're getting more and more requests to transport larger patients

every

day," said Roy Carroll, operations manager at American Medical

Response, one of

two companies with Clark County Fire Department contracts to

provide medical

transport in and around Las Vegas.

Crews have called 75 times in the last six months for additional

manpower to

handle morbidly obese patients, said Chris Piper, a western

regional spokesman

for Greenwood, Colo.-based AMR. He said the largest patients

weighed more

than 500 pounds.

Carroll, in Las Vegas, called handling large patients difficult and

unsafe

for patients, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

"Not only does this person not fit, there's a chance he or she

could fall,"

Carroll said. "Our job is to get that patient to where they need to

be safely

and in a dignified manner. Traditional ambulances can't do that."

The company recently put into service a $250,000 bariatric

ambulance, which

looks like its other 80 ambulances, but is extra-wide and has a

larger gurney,

a winch and ramps capable of loading up to 1,600 pounds.

Clark County spokesman Bob Leinbach called the need for the larger

ambulances

obvious.

"If you don't think it's needed, all you have to do is look

around," Leinbach

said. "Americans are heavier."

The county's other ambulance provider is awaiting delivery of a

bariatric

ambulance and recently bought four electric gurneys capable of

handling patients

weighing up to 750 pounds, said Matthew Cox, a spokesman for

MedicWest

Ambulance.

"There's less stress on the paramedics' backs and it's a better

stabilizer

for the patient," Cox said.

Of Nevada's 1.7 million adult residents in 2004, the federal

Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention and the state Health Division

estimated that 21

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percent, or about 357,000, were obese.

03/29/06 16:55 EST

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#3

Hey CF, guess who had to buy that ambulance....that's right you and
me with our taxes. Even though we own it, we'll never be able to ride
in it, unless of course we put on a few hundred lbs. WHY DO WE HAVE
TO PAY FOR PEOPLE'S ADDICTION!!!

No comment from me is necessary. This speaks for itself!
CF
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Las Vegas Uses Enlarged Ambulance to Handle Obese Patients

LAS VEGAS (March 29) - An ambulance company has responded to

oversize needs

in southern Nevada by providing an ambulance equipped to handle

patients

weighing 500 pounds or more.
            
     American Medical Response
American Medical Response retrofitted this vehicle for larger

patients.

"We're getting more and more requests to transport larger patients

every

day," said Roy Carroll, operations manager at American Medical

Response, one of

two companies with Clark County Fire Department contracts to

provide medical

transport in and around Las Vegas.

Crews have called 75 times in the last six months for additional

manpower to

handle morbidly obese patients, said Chris Piper, a western

regional spokesman

for Greenwood, Colo.-based AMR. He said the largest patients

weighed more

than 500 pounds.

Carroll, in Las Vegas, called handling large patients difficult and

unsafe

for patients, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

"Not only does this person not fit, there's a chance he or she

could fall,"

Carroll said. "Our job is to get that patient to where they need to

be safely

and in a dignified manner. Traditional ambulances can't do that."

The company recently put into service a $250,000 bariatric

ambulance, which

looks like its other 80 ambulances, but is extra-wide and has a

larger gurney,

a winch and ramps capable of loading up to 1,600 pounds.

Clark County spokesman Bob Leinbach called the need for the larger

ambulances

obvious.

"If you don't think it's needed, all you have to do is look

around," Leinbach

said. "Americans are heavier."

The county's other ambulance provider is awaiting delivery of a

bariatric

ambulance and recently bought four electric gurneys capable of

handling patients

weighing up to 750 pounds, said Matthew Cox, a spokesman for

MedicWest

Ambulance.

"There's less stress on the paramedics' backs and it's a better

stabilizer

for the patient," Cox said.

Of Nevada's 1.7 million adult residents in 2004, the federal

Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention and the state Health Division

estimated that 21

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percent, or about 357,000, were obese.

03/29/06 16:55 EST

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