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All you need to know about ambulances, fast medical response cars, and emergency vehicles. News, preparations, equipment, characteristics, problems, warts and benefits of EMS cars and trucks.
Nigeria, Abia Central adopts tricycle ambulances: complete, useful for traffic and rural areas
Abia Central, the area of Nigeria where the tricycle ambulances have been adopted, is one of 36 states that make up the African country
Emergency Museum / Poland, the Krakow rescue museum
The Krakow Rescue Museum, the only one of its kind in all of Poland, collects and exhibits vehicles and memorabilia related to various fields of medical rescue, such as air, sea and road, as well as other kinds of rescue services like the…
Scotland, University of Edinburgh researchers develop microwave ambulance sterilisation process
Ambulance sanitisation and sterilisation are long-standing issues for emergency responders, exacerbated by the persistent Covid emergency
The five causes of sudden death that can take you by surprise in an ambulance
Sudden patient death during ambulance transport: has a patient ever taken you by surprise? That is, has a cardiorespiratory arrest ever occurred while you were in the crew, in a patient's home, or in your own ambulance, without any warning?
Emergency Museum / Holland, the National Museum of Ambulance and First Aid of Leiden
Holland / The association of the National Ambulance and First Aid Museum (Nationaal Ambulance- en Eerste Hulp Museum) was created in 1988 and manages the museum in the Dutch city of Leiden
Emergency Museum: the London Ambulance Service and its historic collection / Part 2
A London-wide service was then created in 1965 when one ambulance service was formed in London from parts of nine already existing services. It had nearly 1,000 vehicles and 2,500 staff, a very impressive number compared to any other…
Emergency Museum: the London Ambulance Service and its historic collection / Part 1
Maybe it could be hard to imagine today, but until the late 1890s if you had an injury of any kind, it was left to the police or the firefighters to organise the stretchers, named ‘litters’, to carry patients to the nearest hospital or…
What does an ambulance nurse do in Italy? Definitions, competences, skills
The ambulance nurse, what are his tasks and roles? This topic is a source of confusion among ordinary citizens (and sometimes not only among them, to be honest)
No longer just ambulance drivers: EU and UNDP join forces to train paramedics in eastern Ukraine
No longer just an ambulance driver: 30 drivers from the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts have been able to upgrade their skills thanks to a training course supported by the EU and UNDP
Spain’s King Felipe decorates a rescue driver for work as a volunteer ambulance driver during the…
Spain's King Felipe has decorated 32-year-old Alicia Mihaela Cozma with the Order of Civil Merit for her work as a volunteer ambulance driver in southwest Spain during the coronavirus pandemic.