Introduction
An ambulance is a vehicle specifically designed to transport critically sick or injured people from one place to another, mostly home to hospitals. In the olden days, ambulances were two-wheeled cattle carts used to carry soldiers who were unable to walk or were disabled. Most early ambulances were only for carrying patients to the local hospitals. After the front-line worker’s rescue squad completed the first aid, the patient was loaded into the cart ambulance to ride to the local hospital. Sometimes, the doctor went along with the patients, but most of the time, the patient went alone and unattended.
Manufacturing and Structure of ambulance
Ambulances in today’s life come in many sizes and types. These include the vehicle cab, sirens, radios, most electrical system components, the heating and air conditioning parts, the oxygen system elements, and various body trim pieces like latches and hinges. Ambulances are manufactured in a modified construction line method. The vehicle or body moves from one attached state of a mill to another, rather than being dragged along an attachment state. Companies of the ambulances purchase many parts from other supplier companies rather than manufacture them themselves. Specific components are brought to each area for machinery or assembly.
Importance of ambulance
Ambulances come in handy when there are emergencies, the patient’s urgency, and the risk of life. Great functions strain the surrounding, i.e., roads, bridges, thereby avoiding emergency transports from other parts of the city from reacting immediately to an episode. Therefore, having an ambulance in the surroundings will help avoid tension in the case of an accident.
The main role of ambulance services is immediate care; ambulances have a small team who can take care of the first aid. Though they regularly provide both emergency service and patient transportation on behalf of the medical sector. The ambulance service is a part of the front line in the health care sector. They carefully assist with health services, especially at odd hours, and provide significantly to telephone health services through modern communications infrastructure. The ambulances are useful in cases of uncontrolled accidents or natural disasters. In such cases, there are a large number of injured people who need immediate assistance.
Smart ambulances
National and Private health agencies worldwide are investing in the latest technologies to improve the efficiency of patient experience previous to hospital admittance. WAS, a European ambulance company develops vehicles using the latest developments in technology to ease patient and care handling. The SAS system (Smart Ambulance Service System) is using the Intelligent Traffic Control System (ITCS), which uses an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL). The system uses Compressive Data of the traffic. The idea behind the application of the ITCS that would control the timings of the traffic lights automatically in the path of the emergency vehicle. With the help of the Intelligent Traffic Control System, introduced in the traffic signals, combined with the SAS system installed in the ambulance, with GPS technology’s help, the problems caused due to heavy traffic can be solved.