IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0274604.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Use of the Airstretcher with dragging may reduce rescuers’ physical burden when transporting patients down stairs

Author

Listed:
  • Yutaka Takei
  • Eiji Sakaguchi
  • Koichi Sasaki
  • Yoko Tomoyasu
  • Kouji Yamamoto
  • Yasuharu Yasuda

Abstract

Transporting patients down stairs by carrying is associated with a particularly high fall risk for patients and the occurrence of back pain among emergency medical technicians. The present study aimed to verify the effectiveness of the Airstretcher device, which was developed to reduce rescuers’ physical burden when transporting patients by dragging along the floor and down stairs. Forty-one paramedical students used three devices to transport a 65-kg manikin down stairs from the 3rd to the 1st floor. To verify the physical burden while carrying the stretchers, ratings of perceived exertion were measured using the Borg CR10 scale immediately after the task. Mean Borg CR10 scores (standard deviation) were 3.6 (1.7), 4.1 (1.8), 5.6 (2.4), and 4.2 (1.8) for the Airstretcher with dragging, Airstretcher with lifting, backboard with lifting, and tarpaulin with lifting conditions, respectively (p

Suggested Citation

  • Yutaka Takei & Eiji Sakaguchi & Koichi Sasaki & Yoko Tomoyasu & Kouji Yamamoto & Yasuharu Yasuda, 2022. "Use of the Airstretcher with dragging may reduce rescuers’ physical burden when transporting patients down stairs," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(9), pages 1-10, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0274604
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274604
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274604
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274604&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0274604?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0274604. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.