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One advantage is that you have a very fixed environment in the back of an ambulance. The stretcher is going to be in exactly the same place every time (I'd assu

One advantage is that you have a very fixed environment in the back of an ambulance. The stretcher is going to be in exactly the same place every time (I'd assume you'd have some sort of 'slot' to drop the 'film' in on the underside of the stretcher), and there are all sorts of fixed reference points in the back of the truck. Patient positioning is something that we're pretty good at to begin with (if you think it's a pain to get them lined up to shoot the ET... try lining them up to drop it in the first place...)

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The bit where they are fighting you off is the bit I always watched with interest. The erect or supine images are sort of scripted in ones mind after a while. It's the semi erect child with ankylosing spondylitis or some such thing that cause distraction. I remember the situation like it was yesterday. It must have been 10 years ago. I never did manage to get a film where the poor guys knee caps didn't appear over the bases of his lungs on every attempt. We never did see his lung fields well.