- The FireRescue1 Patient Transport product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching Patient Transport products. It covers a broad range of products including stretchers, sheets and pillow cases as well as pillows, patient blankets, patient restraints, triage supplies and immobilization products such as splints, backboards, cervical devices and collars.
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Amy Turley got the idea for her innovative backboard pad 17 years ago, when she was in EMT school. In one training exercise her classmates placed her on a backboard, strapped her arms down, and loaded her into the back of an ambulance for 40 minutes. She had been backboarded before in the classroom, but this time it was different. This time it hurt.
Rare is the patient who walks to the ambulance; here's a look at products that can save firefighters and EMTs from aggravation and injury when carting patients to the rig