Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Vehículos de emergencias - emergency vehicles - Coggle Diagram
Vehículos de emergencias - emergency vehicles
Medical transport is a priority need and will be limited by the number of victims, the classification carried out, the type of catastrophe, the human and material resources present, and the mode of evacuation.
Medical transport can be done by land, sea or air, always giving priority to speed, comfort, safety and the most appropriate evacuation route for each case.
Pathophysiology of medical transport
Gravity, acceleration - deceleration
Changes in speed during TS, both increases (acceleration) and decreases (deceleration), cause physiological changes in the body.
Noise.
Depending on the type of TS used, the source of noise and its intensity level will vary. Thus, in land transport, noise is mainly caused by ambulance sirens; although we must also take into account that from road traffic, stored electro-medical material and the noise of the vehicle itself.
Vibrations
Vibrations can be reduced in the following ways:
TS vehicles in perfect mechanical condition.
Adequate suspension and in perfect condition.
Use of floating stretchers.
Immobilization of the patient with a vacuum mattress.
Classification of medical transport
According to the vital urgency of the patient:
• Emergency medical transport.
• Emergency medical transport.
Primary urgent transport.
Secondary urgent transport:
• Delayed medical transport:
Secondary transport.
Scheduled transportation.
Tertiary transport.
According to the characteristics of the patient:
Stable situation not compromised.
• Stable non-serious patients.
• Non-critical patients: severe stable.
• critical patients: unstable.
According to the degree of assistance provided
Non-welfare transportation.
Assistance transportation.
According to the means of transport
Sanitary land transport
According to the equipment and the transport medication:
Non-assistance units or transport ambulances.
Healthcare units:
Advanced Life Support Units (ALS).
o Basic Life Support Units (BLS).
o Collective health transport units.
o Psychiatric emergency units.
Air and maritime sanitary transport.