What medical equipment is on the medical ambulance

Summary: Ambulance is a vehicle to help patients, life we often hear the sound of ambulance. The appearance of ambulances are similar, many people think that ambulances are the same, in fact, not, ambulances are also differentiated by type. So how many types of ambulances are there? What are the medical equipment on the medical ambulance? Below with the editor to understand the types of ambulances and equipment configuration it. First, there are several types of ambulance

Ambulance is a professional application and health care field of special vehicles. According to the national ambulance professional standards, ambulance *** divided into transfer ambulance, guardianship ambulance, blood delivery ambulance, health epidemic prevention ambulance, fire rescue command car.

1, transfer type ambulance

Transfer type ambulance is also called transport ambulance, refers to the ambulance that can be used to transport relatively stable patients to the hospital. Transit ambulance has general emergency medical equipment and necessities, and can treat the injured on the scene or in the process of transportation, but generally only allows some simple medical treatment such as infusion, oxygen, hemostasis, bandaging and other medical treatment on the way to the hospital.

2, guardianship ambulance

Guardianship ambulance is also called emergency ambulance, refers to the first aid resuscitation and rescue equipment and necessary medicines, can be in the scene or on the way to the transportation of critically ill and injured people to rescue the ambulance.

3, blood delivery ambulance

Blood delivery ambulance is referred to as blood delivery car, blood delivery car, is a kind of ambulance with specialized equipment for blood delivery, which can deliver blood to medical and health institutions according to relevant requirements.

4, health epidemic prevention ambulance

Health epidemic prevention ambulance refers to the ambulance with health epidemic prevention professional first aid equipment, can be the scene of the epidemic emergency treatment.

5, fire ambulance command car

Fire ambulance command car refers to the ambulance with on-site command function, used for large-scale disasters, accidents on-site first aid command work ambulance.

It is worth mentioning that, because the transfer type ambulance and custody type ambulance is a common type of ambulance in the hospital, so the ambulance that people often talk about generally alludes to these two types of ambulances.

Two, medical ambulance on what medical equipment

International about the ambulance are grading standards, the first level is contraindicated, life-threatening; the second level is contraindicated, not life-threatening; the third level is not need immediate clinical treatment.

Relatively speaking, although our medical ambulance classification has also been carried out for many years, but there are still some difficulties in practice, but about medical ambulances, the same is divided into three categories.

Type A (ordinary) ambulance:

1, patient handling equipment: on-board stretcher, shovel stretcher, soft stretcher.

2, limb and upper spine immobilization equipment: splints and neck braces.

3. Oxygen/breathing equipment: oxygen bags or cylinders, adult and pediatric masks, suction, and at least two 10-liter stationary oxygen with adjustable oxygen flow.

4. Diagnostic equipment: sphygmomanometers, thermometers, flashlight illumination, stethoscopes, cardiac monitoring equipment.

5, circulatory equipment: infusion 4 (liters), syringes 4 pay and infusion set 4 (sets), infusion bracket 2.

6, bandage dressing and nursing equipment: wound treatment materials, vomit bags, pointed medical supplies containers (Sharps containers), disposable sterile sex gloves.

7, sets of instrument kits: delivery kits, catheterization kits, debridement kits, medical waste garbage cans (bags).

8, communication equipment: wireless communication equipment.

Type B (rescue and monitoring) ambulance:

This type of ambulance has more medical equipment than type A. In addition to the equipment included in type A, it also needs pressurized infusion device, chest decompression equipment, portable ventilator or multifunctional ventilator, defibrillator, cardiac monitor (with storage and printing), portable airway management system.

Type C (Protective Custody) Ambulance:

Adds respiratory infectious disease transport system equipment and appropriate cleaning and disinfecting materials to Type B equipment.

In addition to the above medical equipment, all ambulances need to be equipped with first aid medicines, and after each ambulance trip, the consumed chits must be replenished immediately, waiting for the next use.