Safest Wheelchair and Stretcher Securement with Q'STRAINT | NEMT Experts Podcast Episode 44
Bambi CEO Nirav Chheda and Model1's John Maselli talk with Darren Reaume and Oli Davalos of Q'STRAINT, a leading producer of wheelchair and stretcher securement systems, about the best practices and latest innovation the Ambulok in mobility securement devices.
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Podcast Show Notes:
The NEMT Experts podcast episode highlights the crucial role of proper securement and training in ensuring passenger safety in the non-emergency medical transport industry. Q'Straint's commitment to innovation and training, along with their new products like Ambulok, aim to address the evolving challenges of transporting passengers with disabilities and improve safety standards in the industry.
Key Takeaways:
- Q'Straint's Mission: Making safety accessible in transportation for passengers with mobility devices.
- Securement Challenges: Transporting passengers with disabilities involves complex scenarios due to the wide variety of mobility devices and the fact that many aren't designed for transport.
- Importance of Training: Wheelchair and stretcher securement requires comprehensive training for operators due to the diversity of devices and securement situations.
- Q'Straint Training Resources: Q'Straint offers various training options, including on-demand courses, webinars, and a national training center, to address the challenges of operator turnover and ensure passenger safety.
- Ambuloc Innovation: The Ambuloc system provides a safe and flexible solution for transporting both wheelchairs and stretchers, meeting the latest crash testing standards and addressing a gap in the non-emergency medical transport industry.
- Prioritizing Safety: Emphasizes the importance of securement training, proper equipment use, and sufficient loading/unloading times to avoid accidents and injuries.
- Future of Securement: Q'Straint focuses on developing new products that simplify and expedite the securement process, making it easier for operators and improving passenger safety.
Interesting Quotes:
- Darren Reaume: "We like to fill in the gap that once they're accessible, who's thinking about providing the same level of safety to those passengers using mobility devices or mobility products that vehicle manufacturers are thinking about providing for the ambulatory passengers?"
- Darren Reaume: "The vast majority of wheelchair incidents are not accidents. They're not an accident where someone is injured. It's routine driving where someone has not secured the chair properly."
- John Maselli: "If you're going to go and buy the best product out there in the market...none of that means anything if you're not using it properly, right? So you know, where's the safety at that point?"
- Oli Davalos: "The equipment that's currently in our industry, the non-emergency transport industry, hasn't gotten bad, per se, but it's not really the equipment that is blessed by the latest EMS regulations. And so if that's the system that we're using, we have a long way to catch up. That's really what we try to do with AmbuloK."
