emergency strecther

emergency strecther

emergency strecther

The present invention relates to a emergency stretcher which includes cot sides 160 and 162. These can be moved towards or away from the patient support to accommodate patients of greater width than average. The stretcher also includes a leg support that can be moved to a shock position by a hydraulic cylinder 152 connected to the lower end of the unshaped frame 150 at one end and at the other to the leg part of the patients support.

The present application relates to emergency stretchers that are sometimes known as cots, and to methods of using stretchers.

In recent years the weight of patients has been increasing. Patients over a certain size will not fit on conventional stretchers because they are wider than the upright sides of the cot. Either the sides can be lowered, in which case the patient risks falling off or rolling off the stretcher or an oversize stretcher can be provided. This is either dangerous or expensive or impracticable as ambulances cannot carry a spare stretcher just in case they encounter an overweight person.

In addition it is sometimes necessary to raise a part of the stretcher to raise the patients legs to put the patient in the shock position. This sudden manual operation can harm an operative, particularly if they do not have time to adjust their stance to the correct one for lifting the leg end or if the operative is working in a confined space such as an ambulance that may not permit the correct stance. The problem is particularly acute with overweight patients.

It is an object of the present invention to attempt to overcome at least one of the above or other problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention, stretcher apparatus includes a patient support and a pair of cot sides extending to an elevation greater than the support, each of the cot sides extending at least partially along a different side of the support, each of the cot sides being moveable from a first position to a second position in which, in the second position, each of the cot sides is further from a longitudinal center line of the stretcher than the distance from the center line when in the first position, each of the cot sides having a rail connected thereto and constrained to move therewith from the first position to the second position, the rail of each cot side being supported to a different side of a bracket via a respective guide and arranged to extend at least partially under the patient support when in the first position, and being coextensive over at least partially under the patient support when in the first position, and being coextensive over at least part of their extent in at least one position of the cot side.

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