Mounted search and rescue

["E.S." <ES212@QWEST.NET>]

not this type:   http://www.emscompact.com/products.php?cat=2&incat=&read=6

I'm talking about a stretcher that can be install on the saddle with a 
person on it..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Una Smith" <una.smith@att.net>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Transport via horse


> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:02:33PM -0700, E.S. wrote:
> > someone need to invent a folding stretcher that can be installed on the
> > saddle, should I start this invention?
>
> Already done.  And on http://www.ibiblio.org/msar/pix/ are some
> photos of one packed on a horse.  See all the photos from El Paso
> County SAR;  they are from training missions.  The black horse
> is packing a collapsible litter and its wheel.
>
> Here, as in other photos of similar training I have seen, I see
> a common mistake.  The subject's right lower leg is bandaged (and
> splinted?) yet the subject is being put on the horse from the
> left so the "hurt" leg must be lifted over the horse.  Standard
> first aid[*] for lifting someone with an injury like this is that
> the helpers lift the person by the upper right leg, thereby
> protecting the lower right leg to the greatest extent possible.
>
> [*] as given in wilderness first aid manuals.  The presumption is
> that the subject can walk out on one leg if supported, but must be
> lifted at any points requiring stepping up or down.
>
> Una Smith
> New Mexico
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