Ambulance bus

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An ambulance bus is a mass casualty, mass evacuation, mass decontamination, or mass quarantine vehicle for transporting large numbers of patients from a mass casualty incident. A typical ambulance bus transports 20 to 24 patients on stretchers.

Ambulance buses are used as mass evacuation vehicles, to transport large numbers of stretchered patients[1].

[edit] Quarantine and isolation buses

Some ambulance buses have a sealed bulkhead that separates the driver compartment from the patient compartment. The equivalent functionality of the ambulance buses may also be built into "trucks, tractor-trailers, trains, subway cars, railroad cars or airplanes[2]". These mass evacuation buses are well suited to being used for quarantine and containment [3].

[edit] Ambulance bus manufacturers and external links

• First Line Technology - AmbuBus - Bus Stretcher Conversion Kit - The AmbuBus converts any transport vehicle (i.e. school bus, transit bus) into a mass-casualty ambulance. AmbuBus
• Sartin Services;
• Thomas buses built an emergency medical ambulance bus built for Hilton Head, Montgomery County[4], upon which the Sartin design was based;
• NEV Interntional
• Crestline Coach Limited of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan uses various bus chassis including Eldorado National and EZ Rider