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Ambulance Design Grades

Ambulance Design Grades

Ambulance Design Grades

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Any good sources of design criteria (or suggestions) for grading a vehicular access for an ambulance at a medical center?  I'm referring to the area where an ambulance would park while it unloads its patients and the manuvering area for the gurney.  Maximum allowable grades?

RE: Ambulance Design Grades

I would say use 2% maximum, which is an ADA requirement for accessible parking spaces and aisle cross-slopes. And flatter than 2% would be better if drainage is adequately addressed.

RE: Ambulance Design Grades

I would slope the drive at 3:1 toward the emergency room in order to convey the patient to the ER staff as quickly as possible.  They've already been through a life threatening accident most likely.  One more little thrill won't do them in.

RE: Ambulance Design Grades

Agree with CarlB, but proletariat's is much funnier.  I needed a good laugh.

Engineering is the practice of the art of science - Steve

RE: Ambulance Design Grades

A couple of thoughts:

1.  Pitching the parking area toward the ER Room door could cause water problems and should be thought out. Convey the water away while maintaining the ADA slopes.

2.  Why not contact the amulance maker and ask them, they live with this day-in and day-out?  They have all the dimensional specs on their vehicle and understand getting patients in and out on a gurney.

RE: Ambulance Design Grades

The ambulance unloading area is usually under a awning or shelter. 0.5% slope is the optimum under the roof and 1 -2% outside the shelter (sloping away from the entrance).

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