A history of innovation in ambulance design

Do you know that the history of ambulances is inextricably linked to war? Unfortunately we cannot speak of the history of ambulances without mentioning the successive confrontations that devastated Europe during the previous centuries and the evolution of armaments that brought a drastic increase in casualties during armed conflicts.

With the entry into the nineteenth century, came a new way of making war, new weapons, more deadly, faster, easier to handle … This considerably increased the number of fatalities in the various conflicts that spanned this century and in subsequent ones as opposed to past eras, where, much as we may find it hard to believe, most of the victims before the normalization of firearms by European armies came from the hand of disease during the war, or infections from wounds not properly treated.

Therefore we can say that the entry into the nineteenth century, left an overwhelming balance of fatalities during the struggles that covered most of Europe. This was due not only to the deadly weaponry of the time as mentioned above, but also to the delay in treating the wounded. For the capacity for health response did not have the capacity to evolve at the same time as firearms until 1793.

To reduce these waiting times, a young French doctor, Dominique Jean Larrey, devised a system of horse-drawn carts that would promptly take the patient to the field hospital for surgery within 24 hours. Thus, Larrey’s ambulances were first used in July 1793, during the siege of Mainz, Germany.

But let’s travel forward into the 20th century and see how as early as World War I, Red Cross troops brought the first motorized ambulances to replace the anachronistic horse-drawn carts.

For the curious, in the East during the assault on Gaza by the Ottoman Empire in 1918 we can still find camel ambulances.

Since that time, ambulances and rapid medical assistance systems have evolved into what we know today. And it is precisely this need to increase the speed of response of the health emergency services that leads companies like EuroGaza Emergencias to incorporate ambulances and other state-of-the-art vehicles completely transformed in the second phase that implement the latest technologies in their product range.

You don’t have to go very far to see mechanized vehicles far from the stereotype. Or yes. In this case, in Dubai they go to the extreme of using vehicles such as the Porsche Cayenne S that the Samur of Madrid premiered some time ago in its fleet. Because, let’s not forget: they are ambulances, although not the vans we are used to. And as such they are equipped with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation system, oxygen bottles and different tools, while inside they carry two paramedics.

You don’t have to go very far to see mechanized vehicles far from the stereotype. Or yes. In this case, in Dubai they go to the extreme of using vehicles such as the Porsche Cayenne S that the Samur of Madrid premiered some time ago in its fleet. Because, let’s not forget: they are ambulances, although not the vans we are used to. And as such they are equipped with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation system, oxygen bottles and different tools, while inside they carry two paramedics.