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- ambulancia; Synonyms: emergency vehicle; A vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in Austria]] ]] ]] ]] An 'ambulance' is a vehicle for transporting sick or
injured people, to, from or between places of treatment for
an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to
bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital or to transport the
patient to hospital for follow-up care and further testing. In some
jurisdictions there is a modified form of the ambulance used, that only carries
one member of ambulance crew to the scene to provide care, but is not used to
transport the patient. In these cases a patient who
requires transportation to hospital will require a patient-carrying ambulance to
attend in addition to the fast responder.
The term ambulance comes from the Latin word ambulare, meaning to walk or move
about which is a reference to early medical care where patients were
moved by lifting or wheeling. The word originally meant a moving hospital which
follows an army in its movements. During the American Civil War vehicles for conveying the
wounded off the field of battle were called ambulance
wagons. Field hospitals were still called
ambulances during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and in the
Serbo-Turkish war of 1876 even though the
wagons were first referred to as ambulances about 1854 during the Crimean
War.
The word is most commonly associated with the land-based, emergency motor
vehicles that administer emergency care to those with acute illnesses or
injuries, hereafter known as emergency ambulances. These are usually fitted with
flashing warning lights and sirens to facilitate their movement through traffic.
It is these emergency ambulances that are most likely to display the Star of
Life, which represents the six stages of prehospital medical care.
There are other types of ambulance, with the most common being the patient
transport ambulance. These vehicles are not usually (although there are
exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by
staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances. Their
purpose is simply to transport patients to, from or between places of treatment.
In most countries, these are not equipped with flashing lights or sirens.
Other vehicles used as ambulances include trucks, vans, station wagons, buses,
helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, boats, and even hospital ships.
* This article uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
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