SR EN 1789:2002

Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances

This European Standard specifies requirements for the design, test methods, performance and equipping of road ambulances used for the transport of sick or injured persons. This standard is applicable to road ambulances capable of transporting at least one person on a stretcher. Requirements are specified for categories of road ambulances based in increasing order of the level of treatment that can be carried out. These are the patient transport ambulance (types A1, A2), the emergency ambulance (type B) and the mobile intensive care unit (type C). This standard gives general requirements for medical devices used in road ambulances and outside hospitals and clinics in situations where the ambient conditions can differ from normal indoor conditions.

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General information

Status : Withdrawn
Approval date : 9/26/2002
Publish date : 9/27/2002
Romanian version publish date : 11/26/2004
Withdrawal date : 9/28/2007
Number of pages : 38
ICS : 11.160 First aid,43.160 Special purpose vehicles
Technical Committee : 377 - Medical devices

Relations with other standards:

Normative reference SR EN 344:1995
Normative reference SR ENV 737-6:2003
Normative reference SR EN 420:1996
Normative reference SR EN 3-1:1999
Replaced by SR EN 1789:2007
Amended by SR EN 1789:2002/A1:2003