Types of Ambulance Services in The World / India
Advanced Life Support
ALS (Advanced life support ) is also called a mobile ICU because it has very advanced medical equipment on board to treat a wide range of life-threatening conditions and critically ill patients. It is a large vehicle that carries medications onboard. The patients in an ALS ambulance require a higher level of medical monitoring.
Air Ambulance Services
Air ambulance services provide air transportation for individuals and groups who require care for medical treatment or to assist in an emergency situation that has compromised the patient's safety, health or quality of life. Air ambulance services also provide relief services as needed. They are packed with essential medical tools, kits, equipment, and machines.
Basic Life Support
BLS (Basic life support ) ambulances are staffed by EMT caregivers and provide transport for patients who require basic medical monitoring situations. This ambulance is equipped with basic lifesaving equipment such as a BP monitor, stretcher, and oxygen cylinder.
Ambulance Bus
An ambulance bus is a type of ambulance with the capacity to transport and treat multiple patients. An ambulance bus is used primarily for medical evacuation of mass casualty incident and non-emergency medical transport of care-dependent patients and can also be used for specific problems such as drunk patients in town centres.
Patient Transport Services
PTS (Patient transport services) also known as Non-Emergency Patient Transport, this ambulance is for patients who require constant clinical monitoring but are not in the dire need of time-critical emergency or those who are confined to wheelchairs and need mobility assistance.
Rapid Organ Recovery Ambulance
The Rapid Organ Recovery ambulance is designed to preserve the organs of the newly deceased so that they'll be available for transplant. There are long lines of people waiting for parts and kidneys and proponents this service will save lives. These are very specialized ambulances and depending on the type of organ recovery they will be doing, they may have a surgeon on board who is knowledgeable about organ removal and preservation.
Mortuary Ambulance
Mortuary Ambulance is also known as "Hearse Van". This Ambulance is designed to preserve the body after death. It contains a freezer box where they keep the dead body. This Ambulance is used for transferring the dead body from city to city or city to states villages to keep the dead body from decomposition our fleet of Mortuary ambulances are available in Hyderabad city.
Helicopter Ambulance
A helicopter ambulance is another version of a flying ambulance. They are used for the transportation of critically ill patients from accident scenes or for specialized treatment to a different hospital. They are also used to transport patients from rural or hard reach locations that other vehicles or aircraft are not able to access. Helicopters are useful for transporting sick or injured people from offshore locations such as oil rigs, ships, and boats or even from islands close to the mainland.
MVA Ambulance
Multiple Victim Assistance An MVA or multiple victim assistance ambulance is the typical ambulance that you will see in attendance at public events. Public venues such as music concerts, festivals, conferences, and sporting events. These vehicles are more like first aid stations rather than for the provision of life support for major trauma, injuries, or illnesses.
Boat Ambulance
The boat ambulance service will facilitate emergency medical service to around 30,000 people in the area. It will be available 24X7. These ambulances are common in cities that have major waterways that pass through them, which is less likely to suffer from traffic congestion. The boat can be equipped as a quick responder type boat which will have speed, or it could be a larger boat that has more capacity for the crew, patients, and medical equipment.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support [ACLS]
The ACLS ambulance services offer extensive services to those clients who are diagnosed with cardiac problems and to those who require care, such as adequate blood circulation and ventilation, during the shifting. It is also capable of handling conditions associated with cardiac arrests such as cardiac arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia) and food poisoning.
Neonatal Ambulance
Neo Natal Ambulances are launched in order to ensure emergency transfers for neonates who require more specialist treatment at another hospital and also for elective or 'back' transfers to transport recovering babies back to the hospital nearest to their homes.
Isolation Ambulance
An isolation ambulance is equipped to deal with transporting patients that require isolation due to their exposure to dangerous chemicals, radiation, or highly contagious diseases. These ambulances will be sealed units that have bio and chemical filters and are manned by emergency personnel trained to deal with these types of emergencies.
