patient transport
Hospital transfer service
Patient transport is the movement of people who need medical care from one location to another.
This includes ambulance services, wheelchair vans, and stretcher vehicles that take patients to hospitals, clinics, or between facilities.
The term covers both emergency transport and non-emergency medical transportation for those who cannot travel by ordinary means: She arranged patient transport for her father's dialysis appointments.
- stretcherPortable frame for casualties
- stretcher bearerOne who carries wounded
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- ambulance bayDesignated emergency vehicle staging area
- gurneyMobile patient transport bed
back board · hospital bed · paramedic · medevac · airlift · oxygen tank · wheelchair · first responder · triage · cot · battlefield medicine · orderly · emergency · emergency room · nurse · hospitals · bedside · cart
- emergency medicalemergency room, ambulance, EMS, ER, EMT
- Emergency MedicineEMT, emergency medicine, EMS, paramedic, paramedics
- Hospital Proceduresadmission, blood draw, blood pressure, blood transfusion, charting
- medical transportambulance, hearse, medevac, air ambulance, emergency vehicle
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
patient transportcargo hauling
freight transport · cargo shipping · package delivery · commercial shipping · baggage handling
patient transportemergency medical services
Prehospital urgent care system
emergency response · ambulance dispatch · life flight · emergency evacuation