While watching a TV medical drama the other night, which was showing an ambulance racing up and down crowded city streets, I happened to begin wondering just what such an action might be like for real.
So later on, switching back to real life, here are a couple of Youtube videos I found showing what such action in a moving ambulance actually does look like, both for the drivers up front and for the EMTs in back, all trying to save the life of a patient they have just picked up and are now transporting.
According to these videos, below, it looks like things can get pretty dramatic, from both perspectives.
I also did a little further reading, and it really is amazing, all the things that can be done now in an ambulance en route to the ER. One article even called them "ERs on wheels."
An article describing some of the functions now possible in a modern-day ambulance in transit:
https://www.emergency-live.com/ambulance/top-10-ambulance-equipment/#:~:text=top%2010%20ambulance%20equipment%201%201%29%20ambulance%20equipment%3a,8%208%29%20oxygen%20supply%20units%20...%20more%20items And what it's like when they're on the move, first from the ambulance driver's perspective:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ambulance+ride+along+youtube&docid=607997778550747493&mid=dd0d355dcac613ab1f70dd0d355dcac613ab1f70&view=detail&form=vire and then from that of the EMTs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwxum9jhvuWhat the real thing looks like.
Here's hoping none of us ever have to be transported via ambulance to an ER, whether or not we have ever had that experience in the past. But if we do, it's very likely that on the way we will be provided with some first-rate medical care.
Have you ever had an ambulance experience? How was it?