دورية أكاديمية
Optimal deployment of automated external defibrillators in a long and narrow environment.
| العنوان: | Optimal deployment of automated external defibrillators in a long and narrow environment. |
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| المؤلفون: | Chih-Hao Lin, Kuan-Chao Chu, Jung-Ting Lee, Chung-Yao Kao |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 2, p e0264098 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Aim of the studyPublic access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) plays a key role in increasing survival outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Based on the concept of maximizing "rescue benefit" of AEDs, we aimed to propose a systematic methodology for optimizing the deployment of AEDs, and develop such strategies for long and narrow spaces.MethodsWe classified the effective coverage of an AED in hot, warm, and cold zones. The AEDs were categorized, according to their accessibility, as fixed, summonable, or patrolling types. The overall rescue benefit of the AEDs were evaluated by the weighted size of their collective hot zones. The optimal strategies for the deployment of AEDs were derived mathematically and numerically verified by computer programs.ResultsTo maximize the overall rescue benefit of the AEDs, the AEDs should avoid overlapping with each other's coverage as much as possible. Specific rules for optimally deploying one, two, or multiple AEDs, and various types of AEDs are summarized and presented.ConclusionA methodology for assessing the rescue benefit of deployed AEDs was proposed, and deployment strategies for maximizing the rescue benefit of AEDs along a long, narrow, corridor-like, finite space were derived. The strategies are simple and readily implementable. Our methodology can be easily generalized to search for optimal deployment of AEDs in planar areas or three-dimensional spaces. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0264098 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/65a752d670ee4c799ac68210463276cc |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.65a752d670ee4c799ac68210463276cc |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0264098 |