Paramedic vs. Ambulance

An individual trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions, victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and preparing them for transport to a medical facility.

(US) An individual who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency pre-hospital setting.

a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment

A paramedic is a health care professional whose primary role is to provide advanced emergency medical care for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. Not all ambulance personnel are paramedics.

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

(military) A mobile field hospital.

A prairie wagon.

(transitive) To transport by ambulance.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals

An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient.