AIR AMBULANCE
GAS-PROOF STRETCHER. LONDON, January 23. A gas-proof stretcher, intended primarily for use with air ambulances, has been designed by General Aircraft, Ltd., and the first is to be added' to equipment of a special ambulance aeroplane built by the company. Planned to meet requirements of an Army specification, the stretcher consists in a collapsible tubular metal frame over which is placed an open-ended canvas tube that flattens into a double thickness to support the patient as the frame is extended and locked in position. Its weight, which is dependent on the material employed in manufacture, may be as little as 171 b.
The canvas tube has a pocket for a small oxygen cylinder, and pressure gauges. A light framework, placed over the patient’s head, supports an oxygen “tent.” If oxygen is administered in this way at an early stage in Hie onset of suffering from irritant gases or in cases of severe bleeding through injury the chances of recovery are much enhanced. The stretcher may be safely used for the carriage of casualties in gas-laden atmospheres, the canvas of the base, which is quickly affected by some gases. is readily detachable, and renewals may I be carried with the stretcher in a gas-proofed haversack. ‘
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1937, Page 10
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