Patent ID: 8382181

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, wherein the one or more tracks comprises a ceiling track coupled to the ceiling and a floor track coupled to the floor; and the chair comprises: one or more ceiling translation members slidingly engaged with the ceiling track; one or more floor translation members slidingly engaged with the floor track; a vertical member extending between the one or more ceiling translation members and the one or more floor translation members and comprising an upper frame junction; and a seat comprising an upper portion, a lower portion, an upper chair junction adjacent the upper portion and rotatably joined to the upper frame junction of the vertical member via an upper arm there between, and a lower chair junction adjacent the lower portion and rotatably joined to the vertical member via a lower arm there between.