1. Development of a first-responder dispatch system using a smartphone
- Author
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Masayuki Suzukawa, Hiroki Matsubara, Yasuharu Yasuda, Keisuke Yamashita, Katsuaki Kubota, Yoshiki Toyokuni, Akihiro Kobayashi, and Chikara Yonekawa
- Subjects
Emergency Medical Services ,Time Factors ,Computer science ,Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems ,Real-time computing ,Mean and predicted response ,Response time ,Health Informatics ,Positive correlation ,medicine.disease ,First responder ,Mobile phone ,medicine ,Humans ,Medical emergency ,Historical control ,Cell Phone ,Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Abstract
We constructed a prototype community first responder (CFR) dispatch system. The system sends incident information, including a map, to the chosen CFR's mobile phone. We tested it in a simulation of 30 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidents which had occurred in the town of Motegi during the previous year. Thirty off-duty firefighters acted as CFRs and were sent to the same locations. The mean response time (from the CFR receiving dispatch information to arrival at the scene) was 3 min 37s faster than the actual response time in the corresponding historical control, i.e. the response time was reduced by 36% ( P
- Published
- 2014