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Term for staff members who carried the injured person into an ambulance

 
 
Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 02:13 am
In my country, there are staff members who accompany the nurse in an ambulance. Their job is to carry the injured person on a stretcher into an ambulance. They are not paramedics or nurses.

Can I call them 'ambulance attendants'?

Thanks.

 
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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 02:33 am
Sounds reasonable to me.
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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 07:52 am
I believe people who fulfill a similar role in hospitals are called "orderlies".

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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 12:16 pm
Elaine Koh asked this at WordReference.com in September 2008. Do you know her? Ambulance Attendants ("AA"s) are employed in the Singapore Fire Service. The standard ambulance crew is a Staff Nurse, a driver and an AA.
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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 12:38 pm
Thanks, Contrex.

Finally, I know that they are called ambulance attendants. If only I had known that Elaine Koh had asked about the same topic at WordReference.com. Unfortunately, I do not know her.

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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 05:26 pm

In a British hospital, they would be called porters.

But porters don't go out with ambulances.
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Reply Mon 16 Mar, 2009 08:42 pm
Thanks to all who have replied to my query.
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