Portuguese Medical Emergency Services, INEM (similar to EMS) is ready respond to emergency situations when needed medical suport and in disaster situation, not only to provide medical aid and transport to hospital they are also prepared to rescue people trapped in accidents or lost in the mountains for example, always with the cooperation of firefighters and police. INEM has 4 CODU (centro de orientação de doentes urgentes) were 112 operators answer emergency calls and dispatch whatever is needed to the scene and 1 CIAV (centro informaçao anti venenos) were operators answer poison related calls. SBV Ambulances are the most comum ambulances and they spread all over the territory in hospitals and firefighters bases. VMER is the comum called medic car, answers life danger imediate emergencies and reanimation, inside goes a medic and a nurse with special equipment. SIV Ambulances are dispatched when intensive care is needed on scene. ARN are dispatched in case of a newly born baby. Emergency bikes are not often used but they still function, they are dispatched in a less dangerous situation. There are also Catastrophic Situation Ambulances which are used in the most dangerous situations, envolving lots of victims. Finally the emergency choppers are dispatched in the most in life danger situations, rescue situations and when ambulances can’t reach the scene.
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Large Capacity Ambulance Buses After disasters with large numbers of injured victims, the immediate ability of a government to react in an efficient way with an appropriate amount of rescue forces determines the survival- and long-term outcome of the patients. The special challenge in those disastrous events is to overcome the natural imbalance of available resources and victims seeking help. In addition, the rescue process presents a tremendous logistic problem; treating and transporting numerous patients to admitting hospitals, despite the usual collapse of traffic around a disaster area. The Mass Casualty Ambulance Bus presents a unique solution to employ a fully equipped mobile clinic with intensive care units and an operating theatre. It makes optimal use of the human resources of Emergency Medical Services and ambulance vehicle capacities. Large Capacity Ambulance Buses can be deployed as: 1. Disaster Response Unit 2. Mass Casualty Transport & Treatment Unit 3. Intensive Care Patient Transport Vehicle 4. Mobile Operation Theater 5. Hospital Evacuation Vehicle 6. Emergency Capacity for Hospital ICU 7. Isolation / Quarantine Ward 8. Mobile Hospital / ER www.globalmedicalconsulting.net