Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that can be used as a decision support tool for a post-disaster response that allows the assignment of victims to hospitals and organizes their transportation via emergency vehicles. Exploiting Operational Research and Cons...

This paper is concerned with extending models for the Maximal Covering Location Problem in two ways. First, the usual 0-1 coverage definition is replaced by the probability of covering a demand within the target time. Second, once the locations are determined, the minimum number of vehicles at each location that satisfies the required performance levels is determined. Thus, the problem of ident...

ESP is an active safety system for road vehicles to control the dynamic vehicle motion in emergency, the composition and working principle of ESP were introduced in the paper, and the control technology of ESP was studied too. A virtual prototype model of a vehicle model was built in ADAMS/Car, and the yaw fuzzy control co-simulation model of vehicle was established in Matlab/Simulink, to study...

Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2010-2011. In 2010-2011, the emergency department (ED) visit rate for motor vehicle traffic injuries was highest among persons aged 16-24 years. The rates declined with age after 16-24, with rates for those aged 0-15 similar to those 65 and over. The overall ED visit rate for motor vehicle traffic injuries was higher among non-Hisp...

When introducing commercial driving simulators a few years ago, the main interest was focused either on operating the vehicle or on the reactions of the driver in traffic and in emergency situations. A comprehensive modeling of the vehicle dynamics was not required for these tasks. However, there are driving simulator applications which make much higher demands on the modeling of the vehicle dy...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Emergency medical services (EMS) provide care to acutely ill or injured patients in settings less controlled than other health care environments. Although reports describing individual EMS adverse events exist, few broader descriptions exist. The objective of the study is to characterize the types, frequencies, and outcomes of adverse events associated with insurance tort claims...

The main priorities of emergency medicine are to rescue lives and to limit the damage to life and limb of the patient as much as possible. The emergency physician analyzes the situation at the accident scene and chooses the appropriate first aid methods as well as the follow-on medical techniques at the hospital. The goal of CANIS the Carinthian Notarzt (emergency physician) Information System ...

Aiming to the demand and characteristics of vehicle scheduling optimization problem in emergency rescue, this paper establishes a multi-objective optimization model, which takes minimizing variable bidirectional distance, path risk and cost as the optimization target. To avoid the prematurely falling into local optimization of ant colony system(ACS)algorithm, and to improve the algorithm adapta...

Background: Injuries and accidents are one of the main problems in the present century. The purpose of this study was the identification and analysis of the characteristics of pre-hospital emergency motor vehicle accidents (MVA) in Rafsanjan, Iran, in 2014. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on all patients recorded by pre-hospital emergency during a ...