In this paper an emergency service vehicle (ESV) location problem has been considered in which it is assumed that each emergency call may require more than one ESV. In ESV location problem two factors should be known; the location of stations and the number of ESVs at each station. Hence, a nonlinear mixed integer programming model is presented in order to maximize the total response rate to th...

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 per...

Title of Document: INTEGRATED MANGEMENT OF EMEREGENCY VEHICLE FLEET Saini Yang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Ali Haghani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The growing public concerns for safety and the advances in traffic management systems, that have made the availability of real-time traffic information a reality, have created an opportunity to build integ...

AIM OF THE STUDY Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a critical determinant of outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of CPR provided by emergency medical service providers (Basic Life Support (BLS) capability) and emergency medical service providers assisted by paramedics, nurse anesthetists or physician-manned ambulance...

this quasi-experimental study was aimed to investigate the effect of an in-service education, including symptoms, complications, and handling chemical and drug toxicities, in fulfilling the educational needs of emergency technicians in fars province

introduction: accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of oncology patients presented to emergency department (ed) can dramatically enhance their quality of life and decrease their mortality rate. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate these patients from an epidemiologic point of view as well as identifying death-related factors. methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, all...

Using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to build an information system is a hot topic at present. The primary goal of this paper is to investigate how to build a SOA-based information system in a special industrythe field of emergency vehicles in environment protection industry. The paper provides a presentation of current compositions of the emergency vehicles information system and then giv...

background: hazardous chemicals, which give detrimental effect to the central nervous system, are widely used in the vehicle services industry. the use of vibrotactile perception threshold (vpt) as a screening tool for chemical exposure is new in developing country such as malaysia. therefore, this study determined the relationship between vpt and chemical exposure among vehicle service technic...