By Samuel Gibson-Gamache
Content provided by Rowland Emergency Vehicle Products Inc.
When you’re in motion, everything matters – the steadiness of the ride, the space to maneuver and the security of the tools that help save lives. In busy EMS operations, every abrupt stop, sharp turn or sudden lift pushes cardiac monitors to their limits. The road is unpredictable, the pace relentless, and the work requires near‑instant agility. Through all of it, your monitors carry the weight of patient data, critical readings and clinical decisions that follow patients from the field to the hospital.
You’ve seen what can happen when motion meets chaos. A fast brake on a steep hill sends unsecured equipment skidding. An awkward stretcher angle leaves little room to stabilize the monitor. A bump in the road shakes loose a mount that’s seen one too many shifts. The result is a vulnerability. A single fall can damage a $35,000 defibrillator, interrupt a patient’s rhythm tracing or create a momentary distraction nobody in the crew can afford.
For field medics and critical care transport teams, protecting that equipment is as much a part of patient safety as an airway check or ECG lead placement. Yet it’s a challenge that’s often overlooked amid the louder priorities of the call.
That’s the everyday reality Rowland Emergency set out to change.
Drawing from conversations with field providers and fleet managers, the company developed a new line of cot and tabletop‑mounted systems designed for the ZOLL Zenix and Stryker LIFEPAK 35 monitors. The goal was to design mounts that fit into real practice, that moved with crews instead of against them, and that could withstand years of use.
ZOLL Zenix cot and tabletop‑mounted system: stable, secure and ready for motion
An ambulance never really pauses. Even on a straight stretch of road, there’s vibration, sway and the constant hum of equipment in motion. Everything inside moves together – the crew, the patient, the tools – and within that rhythm, stability becomes its own form of safety. The ZOLL Zenix cot and tabletop‑mounted system was built for exactly this kind of environment.
Crews describe its dual‑stage locking mechanism as “quietly reassuring.”
“Those two solid clicks under your hand tell you the defibrillator’s locked in and ready before the wheels even start to roll,” said Camden Knixon, logistics superintendent for a large metropolitan paramedic service.
The mount’s steel construction speaks to that same practicality. It resists corrosion, meets EMS standards and withstands the punishing cycle of cleaning, temperature changes and day‑to‑day wear. Those small choices in material and design translate directly into fewer maintenance calls, less equipment downtime and greater confidence that the monitor will be exactly where it should be when a call turns critical.
Stryker LIFEPAK 35 cot and tabletop‑mounted system: secure in transit, instant access in the field
In cardiac emergencies, seconds – and the smoothness of transition – make all the difference. The Stryker LIFEPAK 35 cot and tabletop‑mounted system was designed around that reality, keeping the monitor firmly locked through transit yet immediately ready the moment the crew reaches the patient. With a single motion, the quick‑release mechanism disengages, and the monitor lifts free from its cradle in one fluid movement, ready to deliver care without interruption.
That small refinement changes the rhythm of a call. There’s no fumbling with brackets, no juggling cables at the hospital door, no extra motion between treatment and transport. What was once a moment of delay becomes part of the continuous hum of care, an unbroken flow from road to bedside.
In practice, it creates something every crew values but rarely gets: stability amid chaos. The monitor stays secure through the road’s unpredictability and readily accessible when the doors swing open. The workspace becomes calmer, safer and more sustainable for those managing the constant motion of EMS life.
Unified protection and performance
Both the ZOLL Zenix and Stryker LIFEPAK 35 mounting systems were shaped through ongoing conversations between engineers and the EMS professionals who use them every day. They didn’t emerge from a design studio in isolation; they came from field observations, shift debriefs and the kind of small, specific frustrations that only surface after thousands of calls. The resulting systems aren’t meant to impress through complexity or aesthetics. They’re simple, durable tools built to solve a problem so common it often goes unnoticed until it’s gone.
Out on the road, those refinements translate into steadiness and safety. There’s less need to adjust a monitor midtransfer or resecure a slipping mount during a turn. Over time, that subtle shift reduces fatigue, both physical and mental, and gives crews one less variable to monitor in an environment already defined by unpredictability.
The bottom line
The right equipment shouldn’t add complexity; it should enhance the paramedic’s user experience and optimize the continuum of care.
The Rowland Emergency cot and tabletop‑mounted systems for the ZOLL Zenix and Stryker LIFEPAK 35 embody that purpose. They provide secure, durable and ergonomic protection for the monitors that carry patient data through every turn of the job.
Because in the back of every rig, when the sirens rise and the road starts to shake, crews have enough to manage. Their monitors shouldn’t be one of them.
For more information, visit Rowland Emergency Vehicle Products Inc.