# The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2013
- Speaker: Eli Beer
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_beer_the_fastest_ambulance_a_motorcycle)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As a young EMT on a Jerusalem ambulance, Eli Beer realized that, stuck in brutal urban traffic, they often arrived too late to help. So he organized a group of volunteer EMTs -- many on foot -- ready to drop everything and dash to save lives in their neighborhood. Today, United Hatzlah uses a smartphone app and a fleet of "ambucycles" to help nearby patients until an ambulance arrives. With an average response time of 3 minutes, last year, they treated 207,000 people in Israel. And the idea is going global.

## Lectures

1. [The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/eli_beer_the_fastest_ambulance_a_motorcycle/d3683c0e4d18), 11 min (TED's player)