An ambulance is known as a type of vehicle whose purpose is to transport sick or injured people, from or between some type of hospital center, where professional help will be administered. However, there may also be cases, in which the purpose of said vehicle is focused solely to provide on-site care to the patient, without the patient having the need to be transferred to a hospital, an example of this is when during an emergency apply pre-hospital medicine paramedical treatments. It should be noted that ambulances are currently equipped with the most advanced technological equipment to be able to offer the best help to patients who require it.
It is important to point out that in the same way, ambulances, due to the preparation they have, have the capacity to offer an injured or sick person a first emergency care that after being admitted to the hospital should continue that care there. Undoubtedly, one of its most relevant characteristics is the illuminated siren that is located in the upper part of the vehicle and whose main objective is to alert the rest of the drivers who are on the road of its presence for that way be aware and proceed to clear the way.
It should be noted that, although it is true that the reason for being of an ambulance is to transport and treat patients or wounded. However, today there are some that only focus on carrying out one or another action, that is, they only transport patients who cannot move by themselves, or, failing that, attend and transfer the person who is injured in an accident or suffers from an illness. This peculiarity may be due to the fact that many ambulances do not have the necessary equipment to offer all kinds of care.
Taking into account the aforementioned, it should be known that ambulances can be of several types: emergency ambulance, this is undoubtedly the most frequent one, usually attending emergencies, sick or injured, patient transport ambulance, as mentioned above, They are only dedicated to the transfer of patients who do not present seriousness, response unit, They are equipped to provide help to patients at the scene, charity ambulance.
