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An apparatus for transporting a patient from a zone having one level or type of contamination to a zone having a lesser level of such contamination, while minimizing the likelihood of contamination from the first zone being carried by the transport apparatus into the second zone. The apparatus inclu

An apparatus for transporting a patient from a zone having one level or type of contamination to a zone having a lesser level of such contamination, while minimizing the likelihood of contamination from the first zone being carried by the transport apparatus into the second zone. The apparatus includes a patient transport stretcher provided with means for locking it in end-to-end relationship with a wheeled surgical bed. The bed and stretcher are provided with rollers by which a patient-carrying litter may be easily moved from one to the other.

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In combination, a litter means for supporting a patient, and a pair of wheel-supported carriers each having means for supporting said litter means in a predetermined plane and also having means for facilitating the transfer of said litter means between said carriers when said carriers are positioned

In combination, a litter means for supporting a patient, and a pair of wheel-supported carriers each having means for supporting said litter means in a predetermined plane and also having means for facilitating the transfer of said litter means between said carriers when said carriers are positioned adjacent each other in an end-to-end relationship, the improvement comprising: cooperating means provided on said carriers (1) for automatically guiding said carriers into longitudinal alignment with respect to each other as said carriers are relatively moved toward one another into said adjacent end-to-end relationship and (2) for holding said carriers rigidly against movement with respect to each other in a transverse direction when said carriers are in said adjacent end-to-end relationship, whereby transfer of said litter means between said carriers may be effected efficiently and safely; said cooperating means including guide means rigidly provided on at least one of said carriers, and receiving means rigidly provided on the other of said carriers and snugly slidably engageable with said guide means as said carriers are relatively moved toward one another into said adjacent end-to-end relationship.