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Ambulance

Meaning in emergency medicine & first aid, with examples

/ˈæmbjələns/nounCore term

In emergency medicine & first aid, ambulance means: A vehicle with medical equipment and trained staff that treats sick or injured people at the scene and on the way to hospital, and takes them there.

In Turkish: ambulans

How it is used

You call, send or wait for an ambulance; it is dispatched to a scene and arrives or attends. Crews take, or formally 'convey', patients to hospital. There are also air ambulances (helicopters or planes) and non-emergency patient transport services.

Example sentences

  1. The ambulance took twelve minutes to arrive.

  2. An ambulance is on its way. Stay with him.

Common collocations

  • call an ambulance
  • ambulance crew
  • ambulance service
  • air ambulance
  • ambulance station
  • paramedicA trained health professional who works mainly on ambulances, assessing and treating patients at the scene and on the way to hospital.
  • EMTShort for emergency medical technician: a trained ambulance worker who gives basic emergency care, one level below a paramedic in most US systems.
  • dispatcherA person in an emergency call centre who answers calls, decides what help is needed and sends ambulances or other services.
  • call an ambulanceTo phone the emergency number and ask for an ambulance to come to a sick or injured person.
  • stretcherA frame with a padded surface, often on wheels, used to carry a sick or injured person who cannot walk.

More terms: Ambulance and Prehospital Care

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