Now a day’s everyone is busy with their regular activities such as their jobs, parties, vacations, text messages, facebook, blackberry bbms, new relationships, nobody is ready to look what’s happening around them. In India, an accident happens every 60 seconds and every 3.7 minutes, to be precise, a road mishap snuffs out a life, some can be saved if the victim has been given medical care as so...

W hen a person suffers a heart attack, the best clinical outcomes are achieved when he or she is treated within two hours of the onset of acute symptoms. Yeatment benefits decline as further time elapses. Health care providers have instituted various communications and medical strategies to reduce the time between onset and treatment. Among these strategies arc patient education initiatives, sp...

OBJECTIVE to describe the victim profile and circumstances of transport accidents involving children and adolescents who were attended at a teaching hospital in the southern zone of the city of São Paulo. METHODS this was an individual observational case series study among patients up to the age of 19 years who were attended at a hospital in the southern zone of the city of São Paulo, state o...

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with earliest, latest, and service times for customers. The VRPTW routes a set of vehicles to service customers having earliest, latest service times. The objective of the problem is to minimize the number of vehicles and the distance travelled to service the customers. The constraints of ...

OBJECTIVE To outline a profile of pediatric trauma victims and verify the likelihood of trauma in children on a high traffic roadway. METHODS A descriptive cohort study of the records of emergency medical service activations on the Rio-Niterói Bridge, a high traffic roadway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Descriptive statistics were expressed as absolute and relative frequencies. The estimated ris...

BACKGROUND Emergency medical services (EMS) systems provide professional prehospital emergency medical care and transportation to help improve outcomes from emergency conditions. Ghana's national ambulance service has relatively low public utilization in comparison with the large burden of acute disease. METHODS A survey instrument was developed using Pechansky and Thomas's model of access co...

Emergency Vehicle is one of the rescue resources in a city. It is important to ensure safe and rapid emergency operations in case of emergency calls. This paper presents a signal priority control strategy for emergency vehicle operations in urban roads. The preset plans are discussed first to provide an optimal route considering the one-way coordinated signal setting, which focuses on the green...

the location-routing problem is a relatively new branch of logistics system. its objective is to determine a suitable location for constructing distribution warehouses and proper transportation routing from warehouse to the customer. in this study, the location-routing problem is investigated with considering fuzzy servicing time window for each customer. another important issue in this regard ...