Let’s ask a serious question:
Why on earth do players in the multi-million business BuLi have players brought out with a fu..ing stretcher? A covered golf cart with transportation costs 0.07% of 1. FC Köln’s TV funds. Again, why aren’t they being taken out?
Because it’s pointless.
Imagine the following: A (possibly seriously) injured player is lifted onto a golf cart with a stretcher, then driven a maximum of 100m, where he is unloaded again (with the stretcher) so that he can be carried into the catacombs (possibly down the stairs), from where he goes straight into the ambulance that takes him to the hospital…
Again: a golf cart for 100m…
Until the golf cart is on the lawn and the player is loaded and then unloaded again, so much time passes that two first responders could carry him to the ambulance three times with a stretcher.
As a former Red Cross officer and rescue medic, I’ll tell you the following: This is RUBBISH! Such extreme consideration is not necessary, the player will not notice any difference in terms of pain and no additional injury will occur through the use of a rescue stretcher. The helpers on site are trained in this regard, so you don’t need to worry. The only exception to this would be people with a serious spinal injury. The rescue helicopter then lands directly in the stadium, but I can’t remember that ever happening since the Bundesliga was founded. Especially since such a serious injury in football can only happen with such brute force that another player would have to jump into your back with an open sole like a kung fu punt.
So you can completely save yourself your pseudo-polemics against the paramedics on site and the apparent “mistreatment” of the player.
Since your previous poster sent me a link to ChatGPT (should I enter my question there?), I used it. There I was told that you can drive to the Rheinenergiestadion with an RTW. Ergo, you can also transport the injured player out with a kart, where the RTW then waits and picks up the player to drive him to the hospital. He has to be taken there anyway. So depending on the severity. I know from my own experience how painful this messing around can be.
But that’s certainly not possible in all stadiums around the world and I don’t know whether it’s possible in Dortmund (that’s where the game took place and not in Cologne). I won’t look into that now either. But it doesn’t play a big role either. I worked as a rescue worker on football pitches myself. From experience: You can assume that there is a mobile stretcher right on the edge of the field on which the player and the rescue stretcher are placed. Whether you push them straight into the ambulance or have to drive them a few meters out of the stadium, the player’s transport to the hospital will be extended by a maximum of 2-3 minutes. And since you can 99.99% assume that the situation is not acutely life-threatening, the few minutes really don’t matter. At this point, the player’s leg is already being cooled in order to at least alleviate the pain somewhat and to prevent additional swelling if possible
avoid. The pain often feels like it comes in waves and that has nothing to do with the “rocking”. I understand it to mean that as an injured/suffering person you automatically look for a source of pain that can be switched off as much as possible and that’s why you deal with the stretcher. This is completely natural, but purely subjective and unfortunately it doesn’t bring any relief. 😉
Of course, my mistake. I was just concerned about the “Cologne” Hübers and that’s why the game took place in Cologne for me. Please excuse me.
Well, I can live with that explanation. I wouldn’t have thought because it always looks a lot quieter in a kart. In principle you are all right, no long distances etc. My first impulse was simply: protect the player, your capital, as best as possible. The first aid would also be included.
Okay, so I learned something again. Thanks for the excursion to the emergency rescue 😊👍️