Equipment for moving patients in need of medical care
For other uses, see Stretcher (disambiguation).
"Gurney" redirects here. For people called Gurney, see Gurney (surname). For the type of monkey vocalization, see Girneys.
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EMTs using a stretcher in 2001.Armed escort carries the wounded to the Senegalese border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974.
A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram[1] 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 not a wounded patient. They are also used to hold prisoners during lethal injections in the United States.[2]
^Morehead, Philip D. (July 2002). "Stretcher". New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form. Penguin. ISBN 9781101220085.
^"A Brief History of Lethal Injection". TIME.com. 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008.
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