CS 426 Senior Project, Spring 2005, at UNR/CSE Dept

Reference:

American Heart Association.  Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Healthcare providers.

The American Heart Association is the leading authority on cardiovascular care.  This handbook provides recommended standards for response times.  We will use the recommended standards to ensure that any recommendations that our software provides regarding ambulance placement conform with the compliance standards for urban areas.

Bledsoe, Bryan E.  “EMS Mythology: Part 7”.  Emergency Medical Services:  The Journal of Emergency Care, Rescue and Transportation.  http://www.emsmagazine.com/emsmythology/emsmyth7.html

In this article, Dr. Bledsoe argues that the use of System Status Management where resources are deployed based on perceived demand instead of deployed evenly should be avoided because of hidden costs and clinically insignificant response time differences.  This is applicable because REMSA uses System Status Management.

Heightman, A.J  “Innovations From Hells Fury”.  Journal of Emergency Medical Services.  Dec. 2003.  Vol. 28.  Issue 12.

 In this article the author examines the stresses placed on the emergency medical resources available to the greater San Diego area during the recent wildfires.  San Diego uses a system similar to Washoe County in that all medical responses include a paramedic.  The fires stressed the system in San Diego to a point where they did not have any medical resources to deploy to the city.

Hough, T.  “A View from the Street:  System Status Management”.  Journal of Emergency Medical Services.  Dec. 1986.  Vol. 11.  Issue 12.

In this article the author compares different algorithms and cost-benefit analysis for deployment plans for ambulances.  The author did studies in Tulsa, Oklahoma which is similar in size and population to the Reno/Sparks area where REMSA receives most of their 911 requests.

Stout, J.L.  “System Status Management.  The Strategy of Ambulance Placement”.  Journal of Emergency Medical Services.  Aug. 1983.  pg 22 – 32.

The author of this article is the founder of the concept of System Status Management.  The author makes arguments as to why ambulance systems should use a demand base deployment plan as opposed to the models that were used which generally involved equal coverage.   Part of the aim of this project is to provide statistical verification of many of the arguments that the author of this article makes.

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