We know that most of the ambulances are converted from ordinary light buses, but you may not know that there are two types of ambulances according to the richness of the items in the car: 1) ordinary transfer ambulance (transportation type); 2) first aid guardianship ambulance (guardianship type).
So what is the right model to use as an ambulance prototype?
First of all, the size should not be too big. The first is to ensure the efficiency of the delivery of emergency vehicles, the city is often complex streets, residential roads are narrow, dense traffic is also a major threat to the emergency vehicles, so the vehicle size can not be too high, too wide, too long, the best is a small turning radius, maneuverability of the vehicle, to ensure that in the city of the streets in the fast passage.
Secondly, the interior space is spacious. Because the ambulance needs to accommodate many medical equipment and medical personnel, it needs to have enough space to carry out rescue operations. For some critical care ambulances, it is common to buy larger vehicles such as the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (check price | model details) and the Ford Transit.
The above two points are contradictory, so the ambulances in different countries around the world will be different according to the national conditions, such as the United States, the ambulance will be more like the Ford E350 (check price | model details) such as the large size of the prototype car.
There's also the smoothness of the ride. The ambulance in the transport process requires a smooth ride, minimize the car patients and paramedics are subjected to bumps, so you need to choose the chassis damping performance of the vehicle. In addition, the gasoline engine start fast low noise vibration, but also more suitable than diesel cars, unless the large medical car, the general ambulance use gasoline cars.
What will be in the car?
Below is a list of configurations provided by an ambulance manufacturer, from which you can see that an ambulance's medical bay is roughly composed of six systems: warning/alarm system, oxygen/power supply system, lighting/disinfecting system, medical/rescue system, air-conditioning/ventilation system, and seating/assistive system, and that custodial ambulances come standard with more items than transport ones.
Next, we'll look at these six systems to see exactly what's on board.
Warning/alarm system The warning lights are usually blue and white, and the sirens, which are distinct from fire trucks and police cars, are much more urgent and disconcerting, alerting pedestrians to get out of the way to save the patient's life.
Oxygen/Power Supply System
Because a lot of medical equipment requires electricity, the vehicle will be installed with 220V AC and 12V DC power supply interfaces, and auxiliary equipment, such as inverters and mobile cables.
As for the oxygen supply system, the vehicle is always equipped with two oxygen cylinders with pressure reducing valves and barometers, and through the hidden oxygen pipeline, it is delivered to two oxygen terminal ports, one for the installation of respiratory equipment, and the other for the installation of a humidifier special socket.
Lighting/disinfection system
The lighting system is also essential in the vehicle, and when cleaning the ambulance, the UV and ozone disinfection lamps make it easy and straightforward to sterilize the interior.
Medical/ambulance system
As an ambulance, it is natural to have full consideration of the safety of the vehicle, such as the medical cabin floor with acid, alkali, fire, anti-skid, anti-static properties, and the interior of the polymer hard materials, so as to facilitate the cleaning and disinfection.
And the stretcher, medicine cabinet, first aid box, medical equipment, resuscitation equipment, infusion suspension device, operating table, dirt bucket these are the core equipment of an ambulance.
Air conditioning/ventilation
High-power heating and cooling air conditioning can provide a comfortable environment for the patient and the medical staff, while the top ventilation system is to ensure that the air inside the car is fresh and clean.
Seats/Assistive Systems
Since the ambulance is a car, traveling on the road will have inertial hazards, so the seat is necessary when the seat belt, in addition to safety armrests, escape hammers, fire extinguishers, these are also essential.
And in order to communicate with the cockpit driver or other accompanying personnel, it is necessary to have a front and rear intercom, and some models will even have a video call system, you can carry out remote consultation.
In terms of appearance, ambulances in China are generally painted white with red or blue decorative decals, and have a ? Emergency? , Emergency, Ambulance, or 120.
And careful people may have found, many ambulance body will be painted with some blue beige star-shaped base of the snake staff pattern, it has any special meaning?
In fact, this pattern is called? The Star of Life?
The blue star is derived from the famous Star of David. Star of David? The serpent's staff.
Later in the ancient Greek legend, the god of medicine, As Buckle Lei Bo cloud traveled around Greece to cure the sick, always hand-held a wrapped around a spiritual snake of the gods staff. Therefore, Greece can be regarded as the birthplace of the snake emblem, and gradually spread all over the world. Jesus quoted this allusion in his ministry and prophesied that he would be hung on a log like this bronze serpent as a means of ? salvation? a hint of salvation. After the rise of Christianity, the snake on the staff? The serpent on the staff? symbol evolved to mean salvation in the West.
In more recent times, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and the World Health Organization, among others, have included the snake on a staff in their logos to symbolize their medical and healing properties.
Not only in Greece, but also in the history and culture of the four ancient civilizations, the snake had a high status and was considered a symbol of power and longevity. In addition to the WHO and national health organizations, many medical schools, first aid organizations and even pharmacies have adopted the image of the snake.
Expand the rest of this article (1/3) 2 What's in an ambulance? Back to top What do you know about ambulances? How do you choose an ambulance prototype?
As we know, most of the ambulances are converted from ordinary light buses, but you may not know that there are two types of ambulances according to the richness of the items in the vehicle: 1) ordinary transfer ambulance (transportation type); 2) first aid custodial ambulance (custodial type).
So what is the right model to use as an ambulance prototype?
First of all, the size should not be too big. The first is to ensure the efficiency of the delivery of emergency vehicles, the city is often complex streets, residential roads are narrow, dense traffic is also a major threat to the emergency vehicles, so the vehicle size can not be too high, too wide, too long, the best is a small turning radius, maneuverability of the vehicle, to ensure that in the city of the streets in the fast passage.
Secondly, the spacious interior. Because the ambulance needs to accommodate many medical equipment and medical personnel, it needs to have enough space to carry out rescue operations. For some critical care ambulances, you'll usually find larger vehicles like the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and the Ford Transit.
The above two points are contradictory, so ambulances in different countries around the world vary according to national conditions. For example, in the United States, where the roads are wide, ambulances are more likely to use larger prototypes like the Ford E350.
There's also the smoothness of the ride. Ambulances are required to drive smoothly during transport, minimizing the bumps to which patients and paramedics are subjected in the vehicle, so it is necessary to choose a vehicle with good chassis damping performance. In addition, the gasoline engine start fast low noise vibration, but also more suitable than diesel cars, unless the large medical car, the general ambulance are using gasoline cars.
What will be in the car?
Below is a list of configurations provided by an ambulance manufacturer, from which you can see that an ambulance's medical bay is roughly composed of six systems: warning/alarm system, oxygen/power supply system, lighting/disinfecting system, medical/rescue system, air-conditioning/ventilation system, and seating/assistive system, and that custodial ambulances come standard with more items than transport ones.
Next, we'll look at these six systems to see exactly what's on board.
Warning/alarm system The warning lights are usually blue and white, and the sirens, which are differentiated from fire trucks and police cars, are much more urgent and disturbing, alerting pedestrians to get out of the way to save the patient's life.
Oxygen/Power Supply System
Because a lot of medical equipment requires electricity, the vehicle will be installed with 220V AC and 12V DC power supply interfaces, and auxiliary equipment, such as inverters and mobile cables.
As for the oxygen supply system, the vehicle is always equipped with two oxygen cylinders with pressure reducing valves and barometers, and through the hidden oxygen pipeline, it is delivered to two oxygen terminal ports, one for the installation of respiratory equipment, and the other for the installation of a humidifier special socket.
Lighting/disinfection system
The lighting system is also essential in the vehicle, and when cleaning the ambulance, the UV and ozone disinfection lamps make it easy and straightforward to sterilize the interior.
Medical/ambulance system
As an ambulance, it is natural to have full consideration of the safety of the vehicle, such as the medical cabin floor with acid, alkali, fire, anti-skid, anti-static properties, and the interior of the polymer hard materials, so as to facilitate the cleaning and disinfection.
And the stretcher, medicine cabinet, first aid box, medical equipment, resuscitation equipment, infusion suspension device, operating table, dirt bucket these are the core equipment of an ambulance.
Air conditioning/ventilation
High-power heating and cooling air conditioning can provide a comfortable environment for the patient and the medical staff, while the top ventilation system is to ensure that the air inside the car is fresh and clean.
Seats/Assistive Systems
Since the ambulance is a car, traveling on the road will have inertial hazards, so the seat is necessary when the seat belt, in addition to safety armrests, escape hammers, fire extinguishers, these are also essential.
And in order to communicate with the cockpit driver or other accompanying personnel, it is necessary to have a front and rear intercom, and some models will even have a video call system, you can carry out remote consultation.
In terms of appearance, ambulances in China are generally painted white with red or blue decorative decals and have a? Emergency? , Emergency, Ambulance, or 120.
And careful people may have found, many ambulance body will be painted with some blue beige star-shaped base of the snake staff pattern, it has any special meaning?
In fact, this pattern is called? The Star of Life?
The blue star is derived from the famous Star of David. Star of David? The serpent's staff.
Later in the ancient Greek legend, the god of medicine, As Buckle Lei Bo cloud traveled around Greece to cure the sick, always hand-held a wrapped around a spiritual snake of the gods staff. Therefore, Greece can be regarded as the birthplace of the snake emblem, and gradually spread all over the world. Jesus quoted this allusion in his ministry and prophesied that he would be hung on a log like this bronze serpent as a means of ? salvation? a hint of salvation. After the rise of Christianity, the snake on the staff? The serpent on the staff? symbol evolved to mean salvation in the West.
In more recent times, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and the World Health Organization, among others, have included the snake on a staff in their logos to symbolize their medical and healing properties.
Not only in Greece, but also in the history and culture of the four ancient civilizations, the snake had a high status and was considered a symbol of power and longevity. In addition to the WHO and national health organizations, many medical schools, first aid agencies and even pharmacies have adopted the image of the snake.
3 15 million ambulance you have seen? Back to top How many types of ambulances are there?Ambulances can be roughly categorized into three types according to their functionality, which are: i. General transfer ambulance; ii. Emergency monitoring ambulance; and iii. other medical vehicles.
This type of ambulance is the regular equipment of the emergency center of the major hospitals, medical institutions around the highest proportion of medical vehicles, amounting to more than 60%, responsible for the general transfer of patients, on-site treatment and on the way to the monitoring. The medical cabin is equipped with oxygen cylinder, supply pipe, 12V+220V power supply system, first aid box, stretcher, medicine cabinet, fire extinguisher, UV disinfection lamp, injection suspension device, etc., and according to the actual needs of the vehicle with defibrillator, suction, ECG, blood glucose meter, blood pressure meter, syringe pumps and other emergency equipment.
Second, the emergency monitoring ambulance
This type of ambulance is an upgraded version of the ordinary ambulance, on the basis of its standard equipment to increase the number of medical equipment, the size of the general larger, some also have to transport the specific patient population of the special purpose, such as stroke ambulance, women and children ambulance, negative pressure ambulance.
The safety of the body of the ambulance is also higher, with steel beams and other reinforcements on the sides of the car to prevent the car from being deformed in a collision; the roof is made of environmentally friendly materials with a hard interior ceiling, which is strong and easy to clean and disinfect; and more soundproofing materials are added to the bottom of the car. Compared to a regular ambulance, a custodial ambulance needs to be equipped with two sets of stretchers, one automatic on-board stretcher and one scoop stretcher.
Critical care ambulance
This type of ambulance is used for on-site resuscitation and emergency transportation of critically ill patients, and is often chosen for its strong power, good vibration damping, and large space, such as Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. The vehicle is also equipped with more comprehensive first aid facilities, medicines and equipment than ordinary ambulances, usually defibrillator, endotracheal intubation device, airbag mask artificial respirator, automatic on-board stretcher, shovel stretcher, upstairs stretcher chair, neck brace and so on, which is equivalent to a mobile emergency room or ICU ward. In medical institutions around the proportion of equipped second only to the ordinary transfer ambulance.
Here are a few more? The first is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are looking for.
Negative Pressure Ambulance
Negative Pressure Ambulance, which is specialized in escorting infectious patients, has already been analyzed in detail, and the configuration of its interior does not differ much from that of an ordinary ambulance, with the biggest difference lying in the sealing of the medical compartment and the negative pressure system inside the compartment, which will not be further introduced.
Women and Infants Emergency Vehicle
Obviously, this type of ambulance is used to rescue pregnant women and babies in danger, and it is common for them to rescue pregnant women who have an accidental delivery before the due date, and it belongs to the large hospitals or maternity hospitals that only have equipment, which is a special vehicle among the special vehicles.
Stroke ambulance (mobile CT ambulance)
Strokes are a specialized word you may not have heard of, but talking about? Stroke
China is a major stroke country, with more than 3 million people affected each year. Stroke patients only have a very short window of time to save their lives, and it is internationally recognized that intravenous thrombolysis should ideally be initiated within 3 hours. However, due to the obstruction of various objective factors, more than 80% of patients miss the optimal time for intravenous thrombolysis after the onset of the disease, and are often left with lifelong hemiparesis, aphasia, and other disabilities, with a disability rate of more than 75%.
With a stroke ambulance, patients are expected to be resuscitated in the most valuable time. However, the mobile CT ambulance is expensive, the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province has the first mobile stroke CT ambulance in South China, the price of the whole car amounted to 15 million yuan, so the popularity of this rare animal in the ambulance is very low, and only in the big cities with developed medical conditions.
Guangdong Province, the second doctor of this stroke ambulance made in Germany, in addition to electrocardiogram, electronic defibrillator and other general emergency equipment, the car is also equipped with a full set of coagulation, blood glucose, blood and other rapid detection equipment, the most important is equipped with the United States of America's most advanced mobile CT unit, and can be real-time transmission of the test results through the network, the equivalent of the entire rescue unit of a full set of strokes, and then moved to the car. The most important thing is to carry the most advanced mobile CT unit in the United States, and can transmit the test results through the network in real time.
A stroke patient received after the medical staff can immediately begin to draw blood tests, do a head CT, rapid detection can be within a few minutes of the results, to determine the cerebrovascular infarction, with the car immediately after the expert intravenous drug thrombolysis, in a timely manner to save ischemic necrosis of the brain cells. When encountering difficult situations, the test results can also be transmitted back through the vehicle's network equipment, and the hospital experts will carry out remote consultation. After arriving at the hospital, the vehicle will be through the stroke emergency green channel, so that the patient quickly admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Third, other medical vehicles
Emergency Medical Command Vehicle
Command Vehicle is a temporary mobile command center for public **** health emergencies, mainly for the in-person leadership to provide the command and scheduling and research to deal with decision-making technical environment. Command vehicles usually need to be equipped with six systems, namely: image acquisition system; display, storage and control system; data and video transmission system; communication command system; office management system; intelligent power distribution system.
Emergency Medical Supplies Protection Vehicle
This medical vehicle is usually used to respond to large-scale emergency rescue missions on-site treatment, it is actually a truck specifically designed to transport medical supplies, loading capacity is its biggest. Medical supplies to protect the car needs to be equipped with external power supply system, on-site lighting system, broadcasting system, shovel stretcher and other types of stretcher, spinal board and negative pressure splints, medical first aid boxes, inflatable tents, rescue shear equipment and so on.
Summary? Conclusion
Doctors and nurses are angels in white, they save lives and heal the sick and injured. The epidemic is spreading, they are one by one to the front line, with the body and the fight against the disease. The ambulance is the mount for the angels to race with death, the chariot for them to defeat the disease. Let's look forward to this? epidemic? Let's look forward to the early end of the epidemic, the surrender of the virus, and the return of the warriors in triumph! (Photo: Chen Ye)
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