Lite Fighter™ Poleless Litter

Patient Transport — Soft Poleless Litter

The 6:8 Medical Solutions Lite Fighter™ Poleless Litter is what you carry when a rigid litter is not going to make the trip. Ripstop nylon, 32 ounces, rolls down to roughly 12 × 5 inches — small enough to live inside an aid bag, clipped to a plate carrier, or in a glove box. Deployed it is an 18 × 72 inch casualty platform with eight integrated carry handles, three securing straps, a hook-and-loop center opening for patient access without off-loading, and a 75g heat-reflective insulated center pad between the casualty and the ground.

Every litter argument ends the same way: the best casualty-movement platform is the one that was actually on the responder when the casualty went down. Rigid litters win on load rating and carry ergonomics and lose on the only metric that matters at minute zero — whether it is within arm's reach. A 300-pound-rated platform racked on apparatus three blocks away moves nobody.

If you had to move a casualty right now, using only what is on your body or in your bag — what would you use?

The Lite Fighter answers that question at two pounds. It is not trying to be a rigid litter and it does not pretend to be. It is the platform that fits inside the kit you already carry, deploys in seconds with no poles to seat and no frame to lock, and turns an improvised drag into an organized eight-hand carry with the casualty secured and insulated off the deck.

No Published Load Rating — And We Are Not Going To Invent One

6:8 Medical Solutions has not published a maximum load rating for the Lite Fighter Poleless Litter. We are not going to borrow a number from a different product in the line and print it here. Soft poleless litters are lift-and-carry platforms whose working limit is governed as much by the number of rescuers on the handles and the quality of the carry as by the fabric itself. Plan your carry with adequate personnel, secure all three straps before lifting, and if your response profile routinely includes large patients in plates or structural gear, spec a rated rigid platform for those calls. If your agency requires a documented load rating for procurement or protocol, contact us before you order and we will pursue a written statement from the manufacturer.

Carry The Platform, Not The Excuse

Two pounds is not a tradeoff — it is the reason the litter is with you at all. Put one in every bag, every carrier, every vehicle. Shipped from a clinician-founded, veteran-led team.

When to Choose the Lite Fighter Poleless Litter

• Weight and Volume Are the Binding Constraint — Dismounted movement, foot patrol, backcountry, or any load-out where two pounds and a 12 × 5 in roll is the difference between carrying a litter and carrying none.
• Organized Team Carry Over Solo Drag — Eight handles and three straps are built for multiple rescuers moving a secured casualty. If your realistic scenario is one rescuer dragging over ground, choose the rigid-base FDLS instead.
• Ongoing Assessment During Movement — The hook-and-loop center opening lets you recheck a tourniquet or expose a wound without off-loading the patient — useful on any evacuation long enough to require reassessment.
• Cold-Environment Evacuation — The 75g heat-reflective center pad puts a thermal barrier between the casualty and cold ground from the moment they are packaged, not after they reach the truck.
• Surge and MCI Depth — Rolled small enough to stack multiple units in the space one rigid litter occupies, so a school, stadium, worksite, or range cache can hold platforms for a multi-casualty event instead of one.

Lite Fighter vs. The Alternatives

• vs. Rigid-Base Drag Litters (FDLS class) — A rigid ABS underside slides over dirt, gravel, and stairs and supports the patient without conforming to terrain, at roughly three times the weight and twice the price. Choose the FDLS when you expect to drag; choose the Lite Fighter when the platform has to fit in the bag and the movement will be a team carry.
• vs. Bare Drag Sheets — A drag sheet is lighter and cheaper and gives you a handle set and nothing else. The Lite Fighter adds three-point casualty capture, center-opening access for reassessment, and an insulated thermal barrier for the same general form factor.
• vs. Rigid Folding Litters (TALON II class) — Full rigid litters offer published load ratings, true two-person carry ergonomics, and compatibility with rated rigging, at a footprint that lives on apparatus. The Lite Fighter is the always-present option, not the ambulance-grade replacement.
• vs. Roll-Up Rescue Stretchers (Sked class) — Roll-up systems are engineered for technical rescue, confined space, and vertical hoist with rated rigging points. The Lite Fighter does not do rigging. If your mission is rope rescue, buy the rigging platform.
• vs. Disposable Carry Litters — Single-use litters stock a high unit count cheaply for surge, with no insulation, no reassessment access, and no reuse. The Lite Fighter is the durable, repeatedly-deployable option carried by the people who arrive first.

Frequently Asked Questions — Lite Fighter Poleless Litter

Q: What is the maximum patient weight?

A: The manufacturer has not published a maximum load rating for this litter, and we will not print a number we cannot source. Crew the carry adequately, secure all three straps before lifting, and if procurement or protocol requires a documented rating, contact us and we will pursue a written statement from 6:8 Medical Solutions before you order.

Q: How small does it pack?

A: Roughly 12 × 5 inches rolled, at 32 ounces. That fits inside a medium aid bag, in a vehicle door pocket, or on the outside of a plate carrier or pack using the storage roll's MOLLE and plate-hanger provisions. Deployed, it is a 72 × 18 inch platform.

Q: Can one person drag a casualty with it?

A: It is built as a multi-rescuer carry platform — eight handles, three straps, no rigid base and no dedicated head-end drag loop. Soft litters conform to terrain and transmit every rock and root into the patient when dragged. If solo drag over ground is your primary use case, the Foldable Drag Litter (FDLS) with its rigid ABS underside and dedicated drag loop is the correct platform.

Q: What does the center opening do?

A: The hook-and-loop panel opens through the center of the litter so you can reassess and intervene on the casualty while they remain packaged and strapped — recheck a tourniquet, expose the abdomen, or reach a groin site without unloading and reloading the patient mid-evacuation.

Q: Does the insulated pad replace a hypothermia wrap?

A: No. The 75g heat-reflective center pad addresses conductive heat loss to the ground under the torso. It does not address convection, evaporation, or radiant loss from the rest of the body. For an actual hypothermia plan on the transport leg, pair it with an active hypothermia management set.

Q: Does it provide spinal immobilization?

A: No. This is a soft casualty transport platform with no rigid base and no immobilization capability. It is not a substitute for a long spine board, scoop, vacuum mattress, or the immobilization protocol your agency operates under.

Q: How is it cleaned between uses?

A: Ripstop nylon is a textile, not a wipe-clean non-porous surface. Follow your organization's bloodborne pathogen and equipment decontamination policy for contaminated soft goods, including its guidance on when a fabric item must be removed from service rather than laundered. If a wipe-down patient surface is a requirement for your agency, the rubberized-top FDLS is the better fit.

Q: Does it come with medical supplies?

A: No. It ships as the transport platform only. Tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, chest seals, and hypothermia management are sold separately and loaded to your protocol.