ambulance

     

An ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injure 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.

Trivia about ambulance

  • From a French phrase for "mobile hospital", it's a vehicle for transporting the sick or injured
  • From a French phrase for "traveling hospital", it'll get you to the hospital quickly in an emergency
  • As a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during WWI Ernest Hemingway drove one of these vehicles
  • The name of this vehicle dates back to the time of Napoleon when it meant "walking hospital"
  • In 1867 the ASPCA began operating the world's first of these vehicles to carry horses, probably without a siren
  • The name of this type of vehicle is a shortened version of the French for "walking hospital"

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