Field transport rail
The field transport rail (also mountain rescue rail ) is a frame extension rail ( stretching rail ) for the temporary immobilization of fractures as well as gunshot and splinter injuries to the legs, especially in the medical service of the Bundeswehr . It immobilizes the injury, reduces the pain of a broken bone and makes the injured person transportable. Depending on the injury, a person provided with a field transport rail may even be able to walk for short distances to a limited extent. It resembles the splint, also known as the Thomas splint, as it is also used in the civilian sector, although this is mainly only used in its modification for use in hip joint diseases.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the field transport rails in the active units were replaced by air chamber rails and are only found as a remainder in the stored inactive units.
The field transport rail essentially consists of two wire brackets and a tension belt . A long wire hanger is tied around the broken leg with the help of three to five triangular cloth ties. A pull loop is then attached to the foot and the leg is put under tension with a strap over the lower end of the stirrup until the pain clearly subsides. A good fit of the uppermost (proximal) fixation is particularly important, as this must absorb the pressure of the tensioning belt. The second wire hanger is attached at a right angle at the level of the ankle and serves as a raised support.
The field transport rail is only carried on vehicles due to its relatively high weight. The application is relatively time-consuming and it is only suitable to a limited extent for the fixation of open fractures and joint fractures. Compared to the air splint, it has the advantage that the pain of fractures can be largely reduced and it can also be applied to a wound (e.g. splinters) if there are sharp-edged foreign bodies remaining.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Fritz Lick , Heinrich Schläfer: Accident rescue. Medicine and technology . Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1973, ISBN 978-3-7945-0326-1 ; 2nd, revised and expanded edition, ibid 1985, ISBN 3-7945-0626-X , p. 202.