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Stretcher blockage is a typical situation in maxi-emergencies and disaster medicine, i.e. This situation is undesirable both because it presupposes a certain overcrowding of the emergency department (which leads to a lengthening of intervention times, especially for less serious patients), and because it makes it impossible for the ambulance to return to operation, leaving the area temporarily without a rescue vehicle and forcing the ambulance and its crew to wait in the spaces outside the emergency department until the ambulance is returned. THE BEST STRETCHERS ON THE MARKET? THEY ARE AT EMERGENCY EXPO: VISIT THE SPENCER BOOTH Stretcher blockade synonymous with emergency room overcrowding In simple terms, the serious patient arriving at the emergency department, instead of being moved to a bed (which is unavailable), remains on the stretcher that had transported him in the ambulance. ‘Stretcher blockade’ (or stretcher blockade) is the undesirable condition in which the Emergency Department or the Department of Emergency of a hospital, no longer having beds available to accommodate people transported by ambulances, starts to care for patients directly on ambulance stretchers, as if they were hospital beds