Disaster Rescue - Australian Emergency Manual (Natural Disaster Organization, 183 p.): CHAPTER TEN - RESCUE FROM HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS: Stretchers in Rescue

Disaster Rescue - Australian Emergency Manual (Natural Disaster Organization, 183 p.)

CHAPTER TEN - RESCUE FROM HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS

		Rescue from Heights and Depths
		Improvised Single Point Lowers (Figures 10:1 and 10:2)
		Stretchers in Rescue
		Two-Point Vertical Suspension (Figure 10:3)
		Four-Point Horizontal Suspension (Figure 10:4)
		Ladder Hinge (Figure 10:5)
		Ladder Slide (Figure 10:6)
		Leaning Ladder (Figures 10:7 and 10:8)
		Ladder Derrick (Figures 10:9 and 10:10)
		Mechanical Descents
		The Jib (Figures 10:18 and 10:19)
		Flying Fox (Figures 10:20, 10:21 & 10:22)

Stretchers in Rescue

10.2 This chapter deals with many rescue applications using stretchers and while the stretcher used to demonstrate these techniques is the pole stretcher, it should be understood that all the techniques, can also be successfully carried out with other types of stretchers.