What is Ambulance?
{{no sources|date=March 2024}} [[File:LJ58OJX LONDON AMBULANCE QUEEN VICTORIA STREET CITY OF LONDON (26124592264) (cropped).jpg|thumb|A [[Mercedes-Benz Sprinter]] ambulance in [[London]].]] [[File:Fiat power Odone Ambulanza in Rome pic2.JPG|thumb|A [[Fiat Ducato]] ambulance in [[Rome]], [[Italy]]]] An '''ambulance''' is a vehicle that is made to take people who are sick or injured to a [[hospital]] or other medical facility. Ambulances help people who are involved in life-threatening [[Emergency medicine|emergency]] situations. These include [[Traffic collision|motor vehicle accidents]], [[Myocardial infarction|heart attacks]], [[Stroke|strokes]], [[Seizure|seizures]] and other emergency situations. Ambulances and other medical vehicles have specialized equipment that helps in these emergencies. The first ambulances were used on [[Battle|battlefields]]. They were [[Cart|carts]] pulled by [[Horse|horses]] that were used to take wounded soldiers to field hospitals.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why Is An Ambulance Called An Ambulance|url=https://www.ambipalm.com/blog/why-is-an-ambulance-called-an-ambulance.html|access-date=2024-04-19|website=www.ambipalm.com}}</ref> Horse-drawn ambulances were common in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] in the [[19th century]]. [[Automobile|Automobiles]] replaced horses in the early 1900s. The chief physician of [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonapart]], Dominique Jean Larrey<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Royds|first=R. B.|date=1970-05-09|title=Peripatetic Patient|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5705.367-b|journal=BMJ|volume=2|issue=5705|pages=367–367|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.5705.367-b|issn=0959-8138}}</ref> invented a concept of a dedicated vehicle which is reserve to carry patients to the hospital. Nowadays, these can provide [[first aid]] or other [[emergency medicine|emergency care]]. Ambulances and other medical vehicles have specialized emergency lights, sirens and horns that they use to warn people that they are coming down the road. Ambulances normally have [[Emergency medical technician|emergency med