stretcher
Sign in to savethumb|EMTs using a stretcher in 2001. thumb|Armed escort carries the wounded to the Senegalese border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974. A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids.
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Gurney
- Classification
- Basic stretchers
- Flexible stretchers
- Wheeled stretchers
- Types of stretchers
- Major stretcher manufacturing companies
- Other types of stretchers
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|EMTs using a stretcher in 2001. thumb|Armed escort carries the wounded to the Senegalese border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974. A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids.
Stretchers are primarily used in acute out-of-hospital care situations by emergency medical services (EMS), military, and search and rescue personnel. In medical forensics, the right arm of a corpse is left hanging off the stretcher to let paramedics know it is a deceased person. They are also used to restrain prisoners during executions via lethal injection.