Anyone who’s worked an airport medical call knows the drill: you wheel the gurney from the med station, navigate through Terminal C, locate the passenger having a cardiac event at Gate 42, stabilize them, then realize the jet bridge is too narrow for your gurney and you’re going to have to transfer the patient to a basket stretcher and carry them the last hundred meters to the ambulance. The AM-BS010 eliminates the transfer point. It’s a stainless steel basket stretcher with integrated 8-inch wheels and a telescoping handle, so you can roll it through the terminal like a gurney, then lift and carry it through the tight spaces where a gurney won’t fit.
The wheels are mounted on a folding undercarriage that locks in both positions—deployed for rolling or retracted for carrying. When the wheels are up, the stretcher functions identically to our standard basket stretchers: four-point lift compatible, 159 kg load capacity, polyethylene-coated mesh body with drain holes. When the wheels are down, the handle extends to 75 cm height and the wheels give you smooth rolling on tile, concrete, or asphalt. The transition takes about ten seconds once you learn the motion.
At 21.5 kg net, the BS010 is about the same weight as a standard basket stretcher with a separate wheeled transport frame, but you’re not lugging two pieces of equipment. The wheels are solid rubber—no flats, no maintenance. We picked 8-inch wheels because anything smaller gets hung up on expansion joints and elevator thresholds; anything larger adds unnecessary weight and storage bulk. The wheel undercarriage folds flush against the stretcher body when retracted, so there are no protruding brackets to snag on doorframes or ambulance interiors.
We developed this model after a stadium medical director in South Korea showed us his equipment log: his team was making an average of fourteen patient transfers per event between a wheeled gurney and a carry-only basket, each transfer adding risk of dropping or jostling a patient with a suspected spinal injury. With the BS010, the same team now rolls from the first aid room to the seating area, lifts over the steps to the patient, rolls to the exit, and loads directly into the ambulance—one device, one patient handling sequence. The handle height is adjustable between 65 cm and 75 cm to accommodate different operator heights, which is the kind of detail that matters when your tallest medic is 190 cm and your shortest is 160.
If your venue, airport, or event medical team is tired of the gurney-to-basket shuffle, reach out. I’ll walk you through the BS010’s specs and help you figure out if it’s the right fit for your response protocols.
