How to use a mortuary/funeral cot for a removal
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Step by step tips on how to maneuver a cot for a funeral home removal. Hear it from a funeral director and a cot professional from Mobimedical.
www.karinorthey.com
www.mobimedicalsupply.com
thanks for this in depth video I am a funeral director apprentice and this is an amazing tutorial
You are welcome!
Same and I'm familiar with hospital cots but not funeral cots!
I brought a cot to relax on while watching TV in my
living room. Thanks Karl
Make sure to let go of the handle when removing so the wheels fall and lock 👌😊
Awesime; compassionate and informative. Back in the days of British old ambulance stretchers (gurneys) they eould have to take out the long poles so the frame of the stretcher would fold up.
Thanks
Thank you Mr Tom !! Thank you too Kari ❣️❣️🌹🌷
Thank you!
Great video! The mortuary cot used in this video is a Junkin MC-100A-OS and is manufactured by Junkin Safety Appliance Company out of Louisville Ky.
Ahhh yes, definitely familiar using these! Thanks for sharing.
Happy Music to take advantage of a cot. 🤷🏽♀️ Yippie!!!
Your people, in the mortuary- funeral business seem like such nice, decent people. I saw a show once about the coroner's office and they seemed like good people too. Made me less worried about ending up there.
thank you so much!
Ambulance cots are no longer all the way up or all the way down. Ferno stopped that in the 1960’s. Todays electronic ambulance cots are very interchangeable
Howie Felterbush no kidding...
Exactly what I was looking for in you new videos. Thank you.
precisely short sweet and to the point. I learned all I needed to in under 5 min. Bravo!
👌 I like the old original Ferno #20 One Man Mortuary Cot
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thanks for this video, Kari, this is very convinence and easy to use, and I would remember to place the head of the decease up, when i need to tilted, thanks agains, by the way, I have been accepted at University Central Oklahoma BA in Science Funeral Services. i am very excited.
Awesome video❤❤❤
Thank you!
Thank you Tom I’m thinking of a new position in my field..
I am in a nursing home and rehab. you see one of these coming in and going out now and then now I know how it works.
Thanks
You made one mistake near the beginning. When raising a cot from the lowest level, raise the head end first, not the foot end. Otherwise, the odds are pretty good that the decedent is going to purge.
Thank you for the tip
From my observation he did raise the head first.
Ambulance cots are NOT all-the-way-down or all-the-way-up. Every cot I’ve used in 20+ years in EMS has been multi-level-for picking up someone from the ground, sliding someone out of a car onto a spine board, or pushing the cot down the hall of the hospital.
@Howie Felterbush That's true. He even says so at 1:05: "One thing about mortuary cots, they're multi-level cots, as opposed to an ambulance cot which is either all-the-way down or all-the-way up."
What I said is that ambulance cots are NOT all-the-way-down or all-the-way up, and haven't been for decades.
I wish I had the ramp thing in my van it would make life easier but I do have to say I love the cot I have it’s made for one person
Do you know who did them ? So I can tell my boss lol
Saw those in a lot of movies and TV shows. They put them in the back of plain looking cargo vans or in the back of the old full-size station wagons that have the landau bar in the window of the cargo bay
You should market these to frat houses. Great way to clean up the drunks after party.
I just learned that you guys have a sled for dead people. Like if someone is large or if the hallway or door is narrow then you have this what looks like a plastic or something that looks like a sled. You roll the person over and put them on it before strapping them in really good. This allows the funeral home to roll the person along especially down stairs and out the door without breaking their back.
INdeed!
Helpful
I liked it! I thought he did a good job.
thank you good video mark h
Great video Kari...:) interesting
The legs on the head end won’t always collapse how they’re supposed to. And this is your heavy end!!! So always make sure to load the foot end and then move up to the head end and be ready to kick the legs into position. This is how we do it anyway. You don’t want to accidentally drop your decedent because the legs don’t collapse right.
Great tips!
My friend's father had to b stood up, as they were removing his body, from the apt he & his family once lived in. The ppl who removed my mom, had to stand her up as well. We live in the same complex.🙏🏾
Thank you for sharing!
Does head or feet go in first?
When do you, if you do, use a body bag during removals?
Only for medical examiner calls
I am not aoryicisn. but I would imagine if the deceased had horrible trauma or eadserping
sorry! i meant if they were seeping fluids or had horrible trauma. to them. Wouldnt this ensure their dignity too?
@@KaritheMortician Transporters, funeral directors, embalmers and others in immediate concern, have diverted from using body bags. The body bags are too cumbersome to use, even though two able-bodied men may be able to lift those corpses, especially the fat and heavy ones. The mortuary cot can be best handled by one person, instead of two.
From a funeral arranger's perspective that has done thousands of removals, the MOBI 500 is very fragile. Gone through several and they collapse at the wrong time.
Thank you for sharing!
Ferno all the way
That 'dollie' position? Looks like there would be a slippage problem. Kari, don't bodies, not in rigor, just flop around or slide /crumple to the bottom?
Rebekah Bridges-Tervydis That’s what the restraints are for. If need be you can also use a highway scoop or back board for extra restraints. The removal sheets will keep everything tight and not allow for flopping
Like a rag doll? Yeah I think so too.
Use Garcia.
@@cascaretthatsright9204 I use this model cot six days a week. The body does not slip in the dolly position. In addition to the two secure straps is the foot rest. Yes that's a foot rest, not a handle. The handle is at the head end.
No thats why you put the strap above the knee and feet on foot bar and tighten strap over chest and arms. And there will be no slipping or floppy body.
How can we get one of this ,if you know any associations please tell us ,we need it
You can order from a number of companies
At Piedmont? That's where I'd be going. Welcome to my neck of the woods.
Indeed it was
Piedmont is in Québec.. so you are québécois or there is another city that is call Piedmont in the U.S.A ?
We have a family funeral home in haysville kansas it is called pro services mortuary
Please give us the adresse we need one of this
Interesting!
anybody knows the name of background music, please?
it is a general piece from the youtube free music
@@KaritheMortician oh thanks, i've found it
Someone wit that wreck chevy impala they gonna need that cot
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What is the weight limit on that cot?
I would have to check that specific one
@@KaritheMortician what do you do when you get a 400 pound person you have to go pick up and transport.
How do you go down stairs with a mobi or a ferno f series?
The legs are collapsed and the cot walked down like with any style cot
But how to you transport a body down porch steps????
You just lift the cot with the body on it up and walk down.
@@KaritheMortician Hi, Kari. Thanks for all of your help. I just interviewed the other day for a Removal Tech. position. I'm not confidant that I got the position though because the interviewer kept asking me if she thought I had the strength to lift the bodies. She said if the decedent is over 200 lbs then they send out two techs. if under then one tech. At any rate, at least I tried. I was so curious about it. Thanks for your replies.
Kari, what is your thoughts on family not viewing their loved one after death? We're thinking closed caskets. With a couple of days before the service, to get past the initial shock and time for private grieving.
In Thailand family members are allowed to see their loved ones after they die even in accidents or other traumatic circumstances and they will often call other family to the scene to say goodbye and sit with the body until EMS is ready to remove it.
@@johnpalomo3193 The emergency medical technicians do not remove corpses necessarily. The dead is removed by the mortuary transport team or the coroner or the medical examiner, as in some cases. It depends on the individual towns and states. The United States can take a hint from Thailand.
What brand is this cot?
So when you place the cot up TO the car to push the cot w/ body into the van you grab the little red handle and push at the same time? Was I understanding or seeing that correctly?
The first 10-20 times, you hold your breath and pray while you're pushing just to make sure you did it right. Especially if it's a very heavy deceased. And on unloading, you don't breath easy until you hear both clicks.
@@davidp2389 I'm so sorry that I didn't see your response. I had the unfortunate happenstance of having the head of my cot to drop the other day when getting the decedent from the van. There's a first time for everything, lol. Yesterday I had it happen that I was trying to put the cot up using the underhanded grab. Didn't work because my fingers weren't long enough when and where it counted and I rammed that thing up to the van and damn near shattered my liver, LOLOLOL!! Man, that hurt. But it was a learning curve kinda thing and now I know better. No matter what the boss says, not everyone has an easier time with the underhanded grab. My stomach is still sore today, lmbo.
I wish at the beginning he would have said always place hand under to collapse.
Thank you
Liked it.
I'd move to see an actual removal video. Can you please make it happen!"?
"I'd love"....
Disappointment sets in...
Yes?, but then again, no! I'd love to see you pull up to the house, get the family members out the room, allow a few more mins to that family member that refuses to let go, finally he/she does, then you begin the process. Also, would like to you unloading the body at your funeral home, go up the ramp etc, etc... what say you, Kary?.... can you?
It will happen. I'll wait.
Objection! Why is the head of the cot always lower than the feet? Shouldn’t you lower the feet first than math heights with the head so the blood flow always is towards the feet not the head. Sorry but I’ve been doing residential removals for over 7 years and this was not proper.
The 10 seconds of lowering one end and then the other doesn't affect anything
@@KaritheMortician if they’re purging it does.
Easy way to remember is red-head....
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the music is hilarious
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Amb to respectuós no entenc res sensillamente un anunci per la última morada.
Big mistake! You should have lowered the other end first.
If there was a rock in front of the wheels on the load end that end will collapse. Same when raising it. The load end should be raised last for the same reason.
That is correct Spencer. I also noticed he started from the wrong end (per instructions on warning sticker on cot) when at the lowest level - Junkin states at lowest position to raise post end first, not load end as shown in video. Ferno has warning stickers instructing the exact opposite on their cots. Before I go out with a Junkin cot, I always lower it down to the floor first and “reset” cot correctly before loading into coach. If you go out with Junkin cot set wrong, you risk a complete collapse of cot. 10 years ago I was wheeling a deceased from my walk in cooler to embalming room and the Junkin cot just fell flat to the floor. My part timers obviously raised the wrong end first at lowest level. What is frustrating is I have 14 cots, Ferno, Junkin, Chinese knock off, and all are a bit different in the way they work and different models, oversize, two-man, etc. and your average part-timer still thinks all the cots are the same.
@@barrypurse5332 I'd be frustrated if I was one of your "average part timers" that you didn't have a standard cot and instead piecemealed everything. Think of your employees better.
Lord man... use your knees or that back is going to blow a disc
Why I would need to know how to use this I don't know
Your accent sounds a mix of norn Irish and American
interesting thanks
@@KaritheMortician it’s cool, that wasn’t an insult I hope you didn’t think it was.
Those cots don't look too comfortable. Oh wait.....
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You'd figure the booming funeral industry would invest in electronic ambulance cots (ie Stryker) and not this 1960s garbage technology.
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