What is Stretcher?
{{use dmy dates}} {{use British English}} [[File:Civiere_a_aubes.jpg | thumb | Scoop stretcher]] The first '''stretcher''', possibly of mat and frame, is in a manuscript from around 1380.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8455786x|title=Valère-Maxime, Facta et Dicta memorabilia traduction françaiseSimon de Hesdin (Livres I-IV)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503235804/http://gallica.bnf.fr:80/ark:/12148/btv1b8455786x|archive-date=2017-05-03}}</ref> Simple stretchers were popular among [[Army|armies]] during the mid-20th century.<ref>http://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/assets/files/The%20Oracle/Equipment/Stretchers.pdf{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <gallery> File:BNF_Français_9749,_fo._67v,_c.1380.jpg | A wounded knight carried on a stretcher in the Middle Ages, manuscript dating back to approximately 1380 AD. File:Fisher's_Chair_Stretcher_1865._Wellcome_L0002114EB.jpg | Example of a chair stretcher, “On the Transport of Sick and Wounded Troops”, 1868. File:Stretcher_miloufs.jpg | A simple stretcher used by US Marines in a training environment in December 2003. File:Marine_CASEVAC_Fallujah.jpg | U.S. Marines transport an unresponsive patient via stretcher, outside Fallujah, Iraq in 2006 File:ASC_Leiden_-_Coutinho_Collection_-_F_37_-_Life_in_Sara,_Guinea-Bissau_-_Armed_escort_carrying_the_wounded_to_the_Senegalese_border_-_1974.tif | Armed guards carrying wounded to the Senegal border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974. File:MS1_on_stretcher.jpg | a paramedic uses a stretcher in 2001. </gallery> == Related pages == * [[Medical device]] * [[Ambulance]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Medical equipment]] {{med-stub}}