Stretcher

The first stretcher, possibly of mat and frame, is in a manuscript from around 1380. Simple stretchers were popular among armies during the mid-20th century.

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  A wounded knight carried on a stretcher in the Middle Ages, manuscript dating back to approximately 1380 AD.
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  Example of a chair stretcher, “On the Transport of Sick and Wounded Troops”, 1868.
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  A simple stretcher used by US Marines in a training environment in December 2003.
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  U.S. Marines transport an unresponsive patient via stretcher, outside Fallujah, Iraq in 2006
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  Armed guards carrying wounded to the Senegal border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974.
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  a paramedic uses a stretcher in 2001.

Related pages

• Medical device
• Ambulance

References

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