Stretcher

The first stretcher, possibly of mat and frame, is in a manuscript from around 1380.[1] Simple stretchers were popular among armies during the mid-20th century.[2]

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

References

  1. ↑ Valère-Maxime, Facta et Dicta memorabilia traduction françaiseSimon de Hesdin (Livres I-IV). Archived from the original on 3 May 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/assets/files/The%20Oracle/Equipment/Stretchers.pdf


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