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What (who) is gurney - definition

EQUIPMENT FOR MOVING PATIENTS IN NEED OF MEDICAL CARE
Gurney; Stretchers; Hospital stretcher
  • Armed escort carries the wounded to the Senegalese border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974.
  • A wounded knight is carried on a medieval stretcher.
  • Scoop stretcher
  • Illustration of chair stretcher, "On the Transport of sick and wounded troops", 1868.
  • EMTs using a stretcher in 2001.
  • U.S. Marines transport a non-ambulatory [[patient]], outside of [[Fallujah]], [[Iraq]] in 2006
  • U.S. Marines]] in a training environment in December 2003.

gurney         
(gurneys)
A gurney is a bed on wheels that is used in hospitals for moving sick or injured people. (AM; in BRIT, use trolley
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N-COUNT
gurney         
['g?:ni]
¦ noun (plural gurneys) chiefly N. Amer. a wheeled stretcher for transporting hospital patients.
Origin
C19: appar. named after the patentee of a new cab design, J. T. Gurney.
Stretcher         
A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people.

Wikipedia

Stretcher

A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids. Stretchers are primarily used in acute out-of-hospital care situations by emergency medical services (EMS), military, and search and rescue personnel. In medical forensics the right arm of a corpse is left hanging off the stretcher to let paramedics know it is not a wounded patient. They are also used to hold prisoners during lethal injections in the United States.

Examples of use of gurney
1. Nurses wheeled an old iron gurney down to the car and lifted Fatmata onto it.
2. The American boxer was removed from the ring on a gurney.
3. I walked beside the gurney as the attendant, John, wheeled her to the treatment room.
4. On surgery day, as Lakshmi lay on the gurney, her mother sobbed uncontrollably.
5. Guy Gurney, a British photographer living in Connecticut, was friends with de la Villehuchet.