Chromosome 1 heteromorphism in patients with malignant disease: a constitutional marker for a high-risk group?

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injury.As an ambulance carries only one scoop stretcher, another has to be obtained.In a busy accident department a second ambulance may often be about from which a scoop stretcher could be borrowed.We, however, believe that a second stretcher should be standard equipment in an accident and emergency department.It could then also be used to move the severely injured from trolley to x-ray table or bed.This is much easier and safer, as well as more comfortable for the casualty, than the traditional straight-lift or poles-and-canvas method.This stretcher has proved popular with the ambulance service and with our general-practitioner accident unit on many occasions.We have found its versatility of great value, even on wet and uneven ground.I We have successfully used it to remove a casualty with spinal injuries lying face down at the bottom of a narrow, 2-m-deep trench and on many occasions at the road-side and on building sites in all weathers.