As a price, so to speak, of the remarkable progress made lately in traffic and industrial plants in consequence upon the rapid development of the civilization, cases of emergency patients have increased drastically, adding up to the importance of prompt first aid ie emergency. Accordingly, the increasing need has come to be recognized of additionally providing an ambulance with the X-ray photographing equipment or irrigator holder for emergency blood fusion and the injection of Ringer's solution. Thus, partly for enabling an initial prompt treatment and partly for alleviating the pains of a patient in emergency, an ambulance has been so remodelled that it may at once be converted into an X-ray photographing stand In view of the fact that an external would may occur at any spot, from the head to the leg, the conventional Bucky table of Kassette stand was found exceedingly inconvenient as well as inefficient for appropriately administering the first-aid treatment, the Kassette stand frame, in the present plan, was so remodelled that it may be moved freely to the left and right while the film frame (Kassette stand) may move to and fro. In this way, photographing may be possible over a wide range, with the least movement of the patient. In the case of a wound on the face, photographing of the rear and front part of the head has hitherto been deemed impossible. By using certain accessory exuipment, this has come to be carried out with ease. Moreover, photographing of the legs has also been greatly facilitated simply by appropriately moving the film stand (Kassette stand) to and fro. In addition, it is so contrived that the irrigator holder instruments, which may be necessary practically for all the cases of less seriously-wounded patients, may have their position easily and readily moved.
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