When fighting on the battlefield, there are always injured people, and sometimes the injuries are critical and serious. Therefore, in the First World War, shortly after the automobile came out, the automobile was used for medical rescue. Thus, the ambulance medical car was officially born.
Modern warfare on the ambulance medical car requirements are higher. For example, it is required to be able to rescue in the front line of the rain of bullets, but also be able to cross the river at any time to quickly send the wounded to the rear. In this way, the medical ambulance must have better performance and floating ability. In this case, some countries in the army is equipped with armored protection of amphibious ambulance. The French army uses a kind of ambulance medical car belongs to this category. This kind of car, the equipment is more complete, there are oxygen, infusion and other first aid equipment and drugs, instruments, etc., and equipped with contact with the radio. This car runs very fast, speed up to 105 kilometers per hour.
Some countries have established a variety of medical vehicles by the mobile hospital, to adapt to the battlefield mobility and make the wounded in a timely manner to get treatment needs. Medical vehicles include more vehicles, equipped with a full set of surgical machinery and operating table surgical car, equipped with a variety of laboratory equipment laboratory car, and a full range of medicines, pharmacy car and so on. In addition, also equipped with canopies and folding beds, ready to receive and treat the wounded. In recent years, many countries have been built on the basis of traveling hospitals containerized mobile hospitals, so that the medical ambulance has been further developed.