An ambulance bus, medical ambulance bus, AmBus, AmbuBus or MAB is a type of ambulance used to transport and treat multiple patients who require ambulance level care. Ambulance buses have been used for a number of different purposes, including mass casualty incident response, disaster response, offering on-site triage, surge capacity, testing hospital preparedness, fire fighter rehabilitation, hospital evacuation, rest home evacuation, taking patients on routine journeys such as holidays for care dependent patients, or to deal with specific problems such as drunken patients in town centres.
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