Locating AED enabled medical drones to enhance cardiac arrest response times

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 378-389

  Pulver, Aaron ^a   Wei, Ran ^a   Mann, Clay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Out of hospital cardiac arrest; emergency medical service; cardiac arrest; geographic information systems; maximum coverage location problem

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICES; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RESUSCITATION; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; UTAH;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEFIBRILLATORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UTAH;

EID: 84958551698     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2015.1115932     Document Type: Article

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