Gurney
Gurney was the generic term for a mobile platform or other medical conveyance.
Description
These devices were used to transport injured beings from the site of their injury to a medical facility. A repulsorlift stretcher was a type of gurney that was equipped with repulsorlift technology, which was alternately referred to as a gravstretcher, antigrav gurney, or hover-gurney.[source?] A device with a similar function, the medical cocoon, was enclosed rather than open.
History
When Valin Horn became mentally unbound, healer Cilghal strapped him to a repulsor gurney and sent him to the neurology ward of the Jedi Medical Corps Infirmary.
An advanced medical capsule was used to transport a severely burned Darth Vader from the lava fields of Mustafar and later into the EmPal SuRecon center. This may or may not be considered a gurney.
Behind the scenes
The in-universe origin of the term "gurney" is not known, but a human male by that name worked at a medical facility on Taris circa 3956 BBY. The real-world term may owe its name to J. Theodore Gurney.[1]
Appearances
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two (as hover gurney)
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two audiobook (as hover gurney)
- Jedi Apprentice: The Threat Within (as gravstretcher)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Non-canonical appearance)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Landing at Point Rain"- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Weapons Factory"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Legacy of Terror"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Senate Murders" (In flashback(s))
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Bounty Hunters" (In flashback(s))
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Death Trap" (In flashback(s))
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "R2 Come Home"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Corruption"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Academy" (In flashback(s))
- MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
- Galaxy of Fear: Planet Plague (as hover-gurney)
- Legacy of the Force: Inferno
- Riptide
Sources
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (First mentioned)
- Strongholds of Resistance
