Re: Ferno vs Stryker

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If you're serious, Stryker wins on all counts. It's more stable, easier to

operate, and much, much easier to maintain. Ferno seems to think that one

has to be a rocket scientist to be able to service a Ferno, whereas the Stryker

people make it easy for you to do most of it for yourself. Ferno is a

legend, but only in its own salespeople's minds. Of course, it was once the

ONLY

choice. What happens when one gets to believing one's publicity is that one

stagnates and ceases to be relevant. That's what happened to Ferno. Now

it's trying to play " catch up " without much success.

I know a system who bought the Ferno battery powered stretcher, but it has to

be plugged into a power supply in the truck. The medics forget to pull the

plug before removing the stretcher, so the plugs get trashed, and it takes an

Act of Congress to get Ferno to work on them. That's the FernoFlexx ICS

system.

I haven't seen the Ferno Pegasus, which I believe is a European version, but

I have seen the prototypes leading up to it, and they were just a rehash of

the same old design they have had for the last 60 years. The FernoFlexx

Integrated Power System seems to be their best shot, and, as noted above, it

leads

to lots of problems.

In the end, once you buy the equipment it's basically yours. Then you need

to look to customer service. Stryker's customer service beats Ferno's every

time, at least from what a wide variety of sources tell me.

Hey, no EBM here. It's all purely anecdotal, but then the use of a

stretcher is only supported by anecdotal data, which is not reliable and should

not

form the basis for any actions by prehospital providers. There is absolutely

NO research showing that patient outcome is in any way improved through the

use of an ambulance stretcher. So take it from there. Back to the old Army

canvas stretchers. A lot cheaper, easier to maintain, and can be managed by

people with a minimum of training.

I hope The Gathering of Eagles will address this topic and confirm that there

is a complete lack of evidence supporting the use of stretchers. Then we

can all forget about Ferno vs. Stryker, get back to the basics that we ought to

be doing, and save a lot of money in the process.

GG

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> Stephan Gascon wrote:

> They're afraid that the medics will steal the

> > batteries to use on their power tools.

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> Tell the company to quit worrying. While they are DeWalt batteries... Tel

> designers specifically made them so they only fit the Stryker

> Cot...won't fit any power tools here.

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> Bob

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