Ambulance

An ambulance is a vehicle equipped to transport patients and provide emergency medical care. Its crew and equipment can begin treatment before a patient reaches a hospital.

Emergency medical services: A system that provides urgent medical response, prehospital care, and transport. Ambulances are the mobile units through which emergency medical services reach patients.
Prehospital care: Medical assessment and treatment delivered before a patient reaches a hospital. Ambulance care is a major part of medicine delivered outside hospitals.
Emergency response: The coordinated actions taken to protect life and address urgent incidents. Emergency ambulances respond to sudden illness, injury, and other urgent medical events.
Patient transport vehicle: A vehicle designed to move patients, generally without the emergency-care capabilities of an ambulance. Not every vehicle transporting a patient is equipped or staffed as an ambulance.
Emergency medical technician: A trained provider who delivers emergency medical care, usually at the basic life-support level. Emergency medical technicians assess patients and deliver care inside many ambulances.
Ambulance equipment: Medical and safety tools carried in ambulances for assessment, stabilization, and transport. Equipment such as monitors and stretchers supports care during ambulance responses.
Interfacility patient transport: The movement of a patient between healthcare facilities, sometimes with clinical monitoring or treatment en route. Ambulances transfer patients when they need medical supervision during the journey.
Fire engine: A vehicle carrying firefighters and equipment for fire suppression and related rescue work. Fire engines may respond alongside ambulances but serve a different primary function.
Paramedic: An advanced prehospital clinician trained to perform interventions such as medication administration and cardiac care. Paramedics provide advanced treatment during ambulance calls and transport.
Automated external defibrillator: A portable device that analyzes heart rhythm and can deliver a shock to treat certain cardiac arrests. An ambulance may carry a defibrillator for patients in cardiac arrest.

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