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Ambulance type A

Patient transport ambulance.

Ambulance type B (BLS)

Basic life support ambulance. They can provide initial healthcare.

Ambulance type C (ALS)

Advanced Life Support ambulance. Including at least a nurse or a physician and a nurse (when it is required).

Angioplasty

Surgical repair or unblocking of a blood vessel, especially a coronary artery.

Application

Means application software, i.e. an executable program that fulfils a more or less useful function, but is not relevant to the functioning of a system itself. Apps help EMSD practitioners make decision and create, for example, a computational model to direct the emergency patients to most appropriate hospital.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing (NLP), and speech recognition and machine vision.

Augmented Reality

A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

Automated External Defibrillator

It is a lightweight, portable device designed for lay people that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart. The shock can potentially stop an irregular heart beat (arrhythmia) and allow a normal rhythm to resume following sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).

Automated drone transport

A delivery drone is an autonomous vehicle, often an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), used to transport packages, food or other goods.

Autonomous VTOL systems

Autonomous aircraft systems that can take off, hover and land vertically.

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