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to stretcher
noun
One who, or that which, stretches.
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A prisoner in a fluorescent orange jumpsuit, wrists and ankles shackled to stretcher bars, moans and waits alongside the other patients, as two armed guards search in vain for a corner to isolate him.
Comments: Broselow tape weight was compared to stretcher weight.
The kit used today is a world away from that provided to stretcher bearers and field officers such as Fleming 100 years ago.
Recommendations to reduce the risk of back injuries are proposed with regard to stretcher and ambulance loading design as well as training in stretcher lifting for paramedics.
Over a 3 month period, 35 ventilated patient transports were divided into the following groups: specialty bed to stretcher (n = 13), standard bed (n = 9) and CarePorter (n = 13).
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Men also accompanied their wives to health facilities, due to the need to be stretchered, to provide financially, and as they perceived it to be an obligation as a husband.
Eighteen healthy individuals (16 male, 2 female) performed force exertions commonly used during bed-to-stretcher patient transfer tasks under both the presence and absence of psychosocially stressful conditions.
Visit to stretcher-party post and the ambulance depot; description of the headquarters, and an air raid practice held early in the morning.
Mr Rumsfeld helped people on to stretchers before being whisked off to the National Military Command Centre, deep inside the compound.
They say they were subsequently flown to Tripoli, blindfolded, hooded and shackled to stretchers.
Smart Medical Technologies, a medical equipment start-up, created its unique Liftaem patient transfer system after seeing nurses struggle with transferring obese patients from hospital beds to stretchers.
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