Gurney represented the standard designation for a transportable platform or other method of medical transport.
These contraptions facilitated the movement of wounded individuals from the location where they sustained their injuries to a medical facility. One specific kind of gurney, known as the repulsorlift stretcher, incorporated repulsorlift technology. The medical cocoon, a device with a comparable purpose, offered an enclosed environment as opposed to an open one.
After Valin Horn experienced a mental breakdown, the healer Cilghal secured him onto a repulsor gurney and dispatched him to the neurology section of the Jedi Medical Corps Infirmary.
A sophisticated medical capsule served as the means of conveyance for the critically burned Darth Vader from the lava plains of Mustafar and subsequently into the EmPal SuRecon facility. Whether this qualifies as a gurney is debatable.
The in-universe source of the term "gurney" remains unknown. However, a human male bearing that name was employed at a medical facility located on Taris around 3956 BBY. In the real world, the term's origin could potentially be attributed to J. Theodore Gurney.