Ambulance's development stages and history

We all know that ambulances are vehicles that rescue patients. In the past 40 years, ambulances have undergone tremendous changes. Until the late 1960s, the main task of the ambulance was only to transport people from the scene of the accident to the hospital as quickly as possible. The space inside the car is very narrow, with only some very basic first aid equipment. However, since then, both ambulances and paramedics have changed. So what is the development stage and history of the ambulance? Let's take a look together next.

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Development History

The ambulance originated in France in the 18th century. It was a four-wheeled carriage. Its appearance was purely for war. It was made by Napoleon to treat soldiers wounded in war to the rescue center, or to load various first aid drugs and first aid supplies, so the ambulance was also called a field hospital or a mobile hospital at that time. After the German Karl Benz invented the world's first car in 1886, the French first converted the car into the first ambulance.

Development stage

With the development of the automobile industry, ambulances are constantly being transformed. There are steam engine power, electric power, and gasoline power. As the power of gasoline engines increases, ambulances become larger and larger, which can carry more equipment and carry more patients. In 1899, gasoline-powered ambulances were put into use at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, USA.

The two world wars at the beginning of the 20th century sparked the upsurge of car modification for ambulances. During the First World War, this type of vehicle carried the task of transporting and treating the wounded on the battlefield.

Beginning in the 1970s, with the development of medical technology, the ambulance is no longer a simple means of transportation for the wounded and sick. The ambulance has gradually evolved into a high-tech mobile medical unit. Usually, an ambulance can only accommodate one patient, but in some developed countries, there are very large ambulances that can accommodate multiple patients. For example, in the United States, some large ambulances are built on trucks.

With the continuous economic development, the basic evolution and development process of ambulances is a transformation from manpower to machinery. At present, our common ambulances are divided into two types, transfer type, and guardianship type. Among them, the monitoring emergency vehicle refers to an ambulance that has emergency resuscitation and rescue equipment and necessary medicines and can rescue critically injured and sick people at the scene or during transportation. The transfer type ambulance is the most common ambulance that can be used to transport patients with relatively stable conditions to the hospital. During the transfer, only simple medical treatments such as fluid infusion, oxygen inhalation, hemostasis, and bandaging are allowed. In addition, according to different patient conditions, ambulances with different functions are also derived.

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