The Spring Festival of 2020 is destined to be a memorable one, as we took what is probably the longest "vacation" in the history of the city, unprecedented and, hopefully, unparalleled.
I asked my good friend in Wuhan if the city was becoming strange now.
"I was born here, grew up, thought I was familiar with all the joys and sorrows of the city, but now Wuhan, we have never seen, in addition to the silence, is along the road loudspeakers are constantly playing a cycle of precautionary precautions, even the ambulance is off the siren, if it is not the blue warning lights flashing eye-catching, it is almost difficult to find their presence, but see the ambulance rushing figure. But when you see the busy figure of the ambulance, in addition to the worry, in fact, but a kind of solid, at least let everyone know that the frontline medical care has been in the fight for us," he said.
Yes, at any time, the ambulance is a kind of car that all people hope to never take in their life, but all people, they need to have their guardianship, today, let's talk about the story of the ambulance.
First of all, I was once "saved" by an ambulance. It was in undergraduate school, I am still a club backbone, in order to an activity, day and night, busy for a week, one evening, suddenly chest pains, rushed to the school nurse's office, the doctor with a stethoscope to check the round, said: "classmates you have some arrhythmia, I am worried that you have a problem with the heart, the situation is critical, to be rushed to send a major hospital! ......" The doctor then immediately called the school fleet and asked for an ambulance to send me to a major hospital emergency.
Said you may not believe, hear the doctor said, my heart's first reaction is actually a little happy, because I know, the school ambulance just replaced the new car, should be less than a week of service it, I should be the first to be received by the "guests". At this time, even though I was lying on the emergency bed, as a car fan, the excitement of being able to "experience" a new car, actually more than the chest pain and "arrhythmia, there is a chance of sudden death," the conclusion of the initial diagnosis to trigger my attention. Along the way, I sucked in oxygen and couldn't close my eyes for a moment, not because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to open them, but because I didn't want to miss the opportunity to study the new car.
The 20-year-old school nurse's office ambulance, a converted Gold Cup Hai Li, just added police lights, converted the rear seats into folding seats placed against the sides of the compartment, accommodated a stretcher bed in the center, replaced the compartment glass with opaque glass, and then replaced the compartment lights with brighter white light, and that's all the equipment.
The good news is that when I arrived at the big hospital, experienced doctors judged that there was nothing wrong with my heart on the way to the resuscitation room when the nurses pushed me to the rescue room in a hurry, and the X-rays showed that because of the lack of rest combined with the strenuous exercise, one alveolus had blown up, which is also known as a "pneumothorax", and if it is severe enough, it will kill you. However, my condition was far from serious, and I didn't even need an operation; I just stayed in the hospital for a few days and took some rest before I was cured. The first thing I did was to get the money to pay for a new car, and then I had to pay for a new car, and then I had to pay for a new car.
In the 1980s and 1990s, ambulances converted from cup vans were the mainstay of China's major hospitals, providing at best a single function that allowed patients to get to the hospital while lying down, a far cry from the ambulances that dominate the big cities today.
The epidemic, rushing in the forefront of the various types of ambulances, whether imported or domestic cars, are a high-tech mobile emergency station, above a variety of life-saving equipment, in order to deal with infectious diseases, these ambulances will maintain a "negative pressure" environment in the car, that is to say, the compartment air pressure is lower than the ambient atmosphere, to ensure that the air with the virus does not come out of the car, the ambulance will not be able to take the air from the hospital, but also to ensure the safety of the patient. The newest addition to the program is a "negative pressure" environment, which means the air pressure in the vehicle is lower than the ambient atmospheric pressure, to make sure that no virus-laden air escapes from the ambulance.
My love affair with ambulances has made me a fan of all types of specialized vehicles, and it's been interesting to learn about the evolution of the ambulance.
The first country in the world to use an ambulance was Spain, and the term "ambulance (ambulance)" first came from France, which originally meant a mobile hospital on the battlefield, the so-called "field hospital. When Napoleon launched the war against Europe, he had a doctor named Dominique Jean Larry, who designed a fast vehicle for first aid, which is the ancestor of the modern ambulance, of course, the ancestor is powered by "biological force".
Subsequently, the British army also learned from the French invention, and adopted a similar way of casualty rescue and means of transportation, people use the English word "ambulance?cart" or "ambulance?cargo" to express this kind of casualty rescue and means of transportation, and slowly, the word evolved into "ambulance", and the meaning of the word from the "mobile hospital" to "ambulance". ambulance? and the meaning of the word changed from "mobile hospital" to "ambulance".
Until the twentieth century, most ambulances were pulled by horses. During the Civil War, these wagons were used to transport the wounded to the rear, and the Confederacy had as many as 1,862 ambulance wagons in the rear of the battlefield to rescue wounded soldiers.
In order to make the rescue become efficient, the Northern Confederation of ambulance wagon formations formalized the establishment of the medical staff and the handling of the better carriage driver separate management, become a professional medical care with professional drivers of the ambulance unit, in accordance with the ratio of one ambulance for every 150 soldiers.
The addition of ambulances proved to be a big help to the troops. At the Battle of Antietam, one of the deadliest battles of the American Civil War, ambulances transported 9,420 wounded soldiers from the Confederacy back to the rear very efficiently for treatment, greatly preserving the troops' fighting strength.
War, which gave birth to the ambulance, also made the ambulance the guardian of the peace time. 1865, Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first civilian hospital to provide ambulance service. A hospital called Bellevue in New York received *** about 1,400 emergency calls in its first year when it launched its ambulance service in 1869, and by 1890 it had received nearly 4,400 calls, and by 1895 Americans had gotten into the habit of calling ambulances when they encountered sudden illnesses.
When the ambulance service became large-scale, the equipment began to be upgraded, and began to carry some of the necessary medical equipment on the car, for the rich people to prepare luxury hospitals, but also in the ambulance will also be prepared in the ambulance of good coffee, brandy, etc..
The development of the automobile industry, so that the ambulance to get the essence of progress, from the horse-drawn carriage into a real car. 1899, the United States of America, Chicago, Michael Rexhausen Hospital is the world's first use of gasoline-powered ambulance hospital, the development of the automobile, so that a lot of big companies to do the business of ambulance conversion, there are a lot of famous military enterprises, and thanks to the engine is more and more powerful, ambulance is also getting bigger and bigger, the space is also very large. The ambulance also got bigger and bigger, with plenty of room for more specialized equipment, and then the Ford Model T, which made automotive history, became the star base model widely used for conversion into an ambulance.
The U.S. was the first country in the world to implement standards for ambulance specialization. As early as 1965, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences conducted an in-depth investigation into the dangers of medical inefficiency in ambulance service. They found that, at that time, because of the ambulance vehicles do not have a standard definition, simply as a common vehicle to transport patients, for some acute diseases did not save timely treatment, on the road to the patient delayed. There are also infectious diseases, because the ambulance is not specialized, but also brings a huge risk of secondary infection.
Specialization, not only for the vehicle, the study at that time, but also clarify the various requirements of ambulance personnel and medical level qualifications. From that time on, the United States began to specialize in the development of professional ambulances to meet the standards, which is to enhance a country's medical standards, play an extremely important role.
Specialization of ambulances is a developmental requirement of modern society, and it is only in the last 10 years that our country has made fundamental progress. When I was in college, I rode in a Jinbei, which was already a good car at that time, but it was obviously not professional, and I'm glad to see that ambulances, at least in China's big cities, have become professional. Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Datsun, Jinbei, etc., all have ambulances that meet the highest professional certification standards, and professional medical staff on board, **** with watching over you and our country.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family number, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.