Ask any EMS worker about noise in his vehicle's patient area and he will regale you with stories about the inability to take blood pressures, calm irritated patients, and hear radio calls due to the noisy environment in a vehicle on an emergency run.
For years, emergency medical technicians have accepted those conditions as "just part of the job." Vehicle manufacturers, too, have been passive and have given the problem only cursory treatment either because of lack of technical skill or incentive to improve.
Horton Emergency Vehicles Exclusive Ten Step Sound Suppression Process at last provides solutions to the problem of vehicle sound suppression. Only on Horton vehicles can a customer find the complete package. And the following features are all standard:
- Underbody completely covered with sprayable, non-flammable latex coating
- Body Interior walls, roofs and interior compartment walls treated with sprayable non-flammable latex coating
- Access and compartment door interiors finished with sprayable non-flammable latex coating
- The backs of all interior cabinets are wrapped in antiphon damping material
- Door interiors lined with polydamp intefoam extensional damping pad
- Body structural tubes filled with non-resonating dampening material
- Side stepwell areas backed with PT Damping Pad
- All walls insulated with 2" Technicon Polyfiber acoustic insulation. Headliners double insulated with 2" Technicon Polyfiber and a Reflectix barrier
- Constrained layer technology, "Quiet Metal," is used to create the body subfloor.
- Stratoflex II, a sound suppressing/insulating composite is applied beneath the patient area vinyl flooring material
- Horton's exclusive Chassis Tuned VI-Tech mounting system provides vibration reduction and structure-borne noise attenuation
No longer must one think noise is "just part of the job." There's a world of difference in vehicle sound suppression. Ask your Horton dealer to show you the quietest vehicle in the industry.