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Aid Training
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Training for EMS practitioners capable of providing immediate aid to patients of different age groups.

Aid volunteers
Area: Emergency Medical Services

It is an unpaid, uncompensated workers who willingly give their time and effort to emergency preparedness and response activities

Air ambulance
Area: Emergency Medical Services

A specially equipped aircraft, typically a helicopter, used to transport sick or injured people to hospital in an emergency.

Airway management
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Airway management includes a set of manoeuvres and medical procedures performed to prevent and relieve airway obstruction. This ensures an open pathway for gas exchange between a patient's lungs and the atmosphere.

Airway management supraglotic devices
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Securing the airway with laryngeal masks.

Airway management with bag mask ventilation
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing or not breathing adequately.

Airway management with intubation
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Endotracheal intubation to secure the airway.

Alternative bid
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

Initiate an offer that is alternative to the tender requirements. Meaning the offer is different to what is being asked for in the tender procedure. Often the alternative bid provides advantages or benefits over the stated requirements regarding cost and/or performance. Also known as variant bid

Ambulance
Area: Emergency Medical Services

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

Ambulance Car
Area: Emergency Medical Services

An ambulance vehicle used to transport patients on the ground with traumatic or medical conditions or patients for whom the need for specialty care care, or emergency emergency, or non-emergency medical care is anticipated either at the patient location or during transport.

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