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  2. Ambulance - Wikipedia

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    A Ford E-Series ambulance with its emergency lights on in Boston An NHS ambulance in south-west London. An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. [1] Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport.

  3. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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    The government reports resulted in the creation of standards in ambulance construction concerning the internal height of the patient care area (to allow for an attendant to continue to care for the patient during transport), and the equipment (and thus weight) that an ambulance had to carry, and several other factors.

  4. Community first responder - Wikipedia

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    A Community first responder (CFR), is a person available to be dispatched by an ambulance control centre to attend medical emergencies in their local area. They can be members of the public, who have received training in life-saving interventions such as defibrillation, off duty paramedics, nurses or medical doctors, or indeed professionals from a non-medical discipline who may be nearby or ...

  5. Paramedic - Wikipedia

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    Not all ambulance personnel are paramedics, although the term is sometimes used informally to refer to any ambulance personnel. In some English-speaking countries, there is an official distinction between paramedics and emergency medical technicians (or emergency care assistants ), in which paramedics have additional educational requirements ...

  6. First responder - Wikipedia

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    First responders at the scene of a traffic accident in Hong Kong A Scottish Ambulance Service nontransporting EMS vehicle, referred to by markings on the vehicle as a "first responder" vehicle A first responder is a person with specialized training who is among the first to arrive and provide assistance or incident resolution at the scene of an ...

  7. Hazardous area response team - Wikipedia

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    All HART teams within the ambulance services of England & Wales have the same capabilities. [ 4 ] allowing interoperable activities at large scale incidents or planned events such as the Olympic Games or UN 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (CoP26).

  8. Emergency medical responder - Wikipedia

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    Emergency medical responders (EMRs) are people who are specially trained to provide out-of-hospital care in medical emergencies, typically before the arrival of an ambulance. Specifically used, an emergency medical responder is an EMS certification level used to describe a level of EMS provider below that of an emergency medical technician and ...

  9. NHS ambulance services - Wikipedia

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    This was almost four times the 7,772 hour-long handovers recorded in October 2020. [18] In April one patient waited 24 hours in an ambulance - thought to be the longest ever recorded. 11,000 patients waited more than three hours for handover, with 7,000 of them taking more than four hours and 4,000 over five hours. [19]