Patent ID: 8616604

Claim:
An emergency vehicle patient transport system comprising: a loading passage providing access to an interior of an emergency vehicle; one or more tracks coupled to a floor of the emergency vehicle, a ceiling of the emergency vehicle, a wall of the emergency vehicle or combinations thereof wherein, a travel path is delineated by the one or more tracks; a chair slidingly engaged with the one or more tracks, and vertically positioned between the floor and the ceiling wherein: the chair locks in one or more set positions; and the one or more set positions are selected from a group consisting of an airway care position, an extended airway care position, a procedural care position, a responder position, a patient care position, a lower care position and a patient load position; and a patient loading member coupled to the floor and configured to transport a cot along a loading direction; and an automated actuation component configured to synchronize the movement of the chair along the travel path with the movement of the cot along the loading direction.