The phrase "ambulance case" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in medical or emergency contexts to refer to a patient being transported by ambulance, often in a critical condition.
Example: "The paramedics arrived quickly and assessed the ambulance case before rushing him to the hospital."
Alternatives: "emergency patient" or "ambulatory case".
The increase in both category 3 patients and ambulance cases may reflect the increasingly ageing population.
The hospital also received 50% more ambulance cases than would normally be expected.
"And the ambulance?" "In case he chokes".
"There was an ambulance in case one of the firemen passed out from exhaustion.
But it might also be able to inform you about the nearest (and cheapest) petrol station, book your car for servicing and phone the ambulance in case of an accident.All this could have unpredictable effects.
He smashed the windscreen of the ambulance (in case the planes above could see the reflection) and then we started into the night on the most terrifying journey I have ever experienced.
Between this and the inadequate training of pre-hospital personnel, patients/families do not perceive any benefit to calling an ambulance in case of an emergency (the study also recorded that a significant minority of emergency visits to hospitals are via ambulance).
A 27 year-old male soldier on the same air ambulance as Case 1 from Liberia also arrived at the 37 Military Hospital on the 26th of May 2013 with a 5 days history of fever, headache and 3 days history of diarrhea, vomiting, severe epigastric pain and passage of dark urine.
Some parents, he said, have even complained about the security force's calling ambulances for cases of alcohol poisoning, preferring to drive their children to the hospital rather than involve outside agencies.
All around them, patients were being wheeled into waiting helicopters and ambulances, critical cases first.
