When trouble happens to us - a fever or a child is sick - we start looking for various ways to solve the problem. Sometimes you even have to dial an ambulance number and wait for a response from a specialist. However, few of us know that today the ambulance service we know is divided into two divisions: ambulance and emergency care.
Definition
Ambulance - this is an emergency departure of a team of specialists to resolve difficult situations and provide assistance in severe cases requiring hospitalization.
Emergency care (ambulance) is organized at the polyclinic and consists of district doctors. The ambulance team visits the patient's home if nothing threatens his life and health. This service is similar to calling a doctor at home and operates only during business hours.
Comparison
The division into ambulance and emergency care happened quite recently at the suggestion of the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Thus, the transfer of non-severe patients to the emergency service can significantly relieve the ambulance and leave behind it only the provision of emergency care in difficult cases. Also, this step allows you to save a fairly decent budget at the local level, since these activities will be included in the rate of the district general practitioner. It turns out that part of the load from ambulance paramedics is transferred to the polyclinic service. In this case, the ambulance dispatcher plays a special role. Receiving an ambulance call, he decides whether the emergency team needs to go to the call or whether it is worth transferring the call to the clinic, that is, calling an ambulance.
Today, such a division is still in the form of an experiment, and therefore is not limited to the division into ambulance and emergency care. The main innovation of this program is the creation of a special emergency department in large hospitals. Its main goal will be rapid hospitalization and immediate assistance to a patient in need of emergency treatment.
Conclusions TheDifference.ru
- An ambulance is an emergency aid to a patient, which is provided by a district doctor of a polyclinic. An ambulance is provided by paramedics of a special brigade, who belong to the ambulance unit.
- Emergency care is provided to patients whose health and life are not in danger. An ambulance is responsible for emergency situations that require immediate intervention: accidents, injuries, acute conditions, etc.
