The KED is the piece of equipment you hope never to need, but when you arrive at a two-car collision on a highway off-ramp and the driver is conscious but pinned behind the wheel with neck pain radiating into both shoulders, nothing else does the job. The AM-FA005 wraps around the patient’s torso while they’re still seated in the vehicle, immobilizes the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine as a single unit, and allows the rescue team to rotate and extract the patient onto a long spine board without flexing, extending, or rotating the spinal column. This is not a transport stretcher—it’s an extrication tool, and using it correctly can mean the difference between a bruised sternum and a C5 incomplete.
The device consists of a rigid torso wrap with integrated head and neck support, secured by nylon buckles and safety straps in a specific sequence: torso first, then head, then legs. The torso section uses high-density polyethylene panels that conform to the patient’s body shape while maintaining rigidity under load. The head support includes a built-in cervical collar attachment point, and the leg straps prevent the device from riding up during the extraction maneuver. Every strap is color-coded to the application sequence—yellow for torso, red for head, black for legs—so even a responder using the device for the first time under stress can follow the order.
We produce the FA005 in two sizes: adult and pediatric. The adult model accommodates patients with a torso circumference up to 130 cm; the pediatric model handles torso circumferences up to 95 cm. Both versions pack flat for storage—adult at 86 x 27 x 42 cm, pediatric at the same footprint but lighter. The adult version weighs 3.4 kg per unit (packed five to a case, 17 kg total), and the pediatric weighs 2.5 kg (eight to a case, 20 kg total). The weight difference matters because you don’t want the device itself adding unnecessary load to a patient’s spine during the lift-and-rotate maneuver.
This device is standard equipment for fire rescue squads, highway patrol medical units, and any EMS team that responds to motor vehicle accidents. It’s not a stretcher replacement, not a transport device, and not something you improvise with—it’s a purpose-built extrication tool for a very specific clinical scenario. If your team doesn’t have one on every response vehicle that might encounter a trapped patient, you’re working without the right tool for the job.
I stock both adult and pediatric FA005 units in Shanghai. If you need to outfit a rescue fleet or replace aging KEDs that have been sitting in the equipment bay since 2012, contact me and I’ll get you pricing and delivery timelines for your quantity.
