Is now the time to invest in emergency smart-navigated multiple-response quadcopter fleets?

Kartawijaya, Timotius; Townsend, Edwin; Tully, Kevin; Isihara, Paul; Diedrichs, Danilo R.; Flores, Gabriel; Shi, Chaojun; Ward, Jonathan

doi:10.1139/juvs-2017-0017

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“…Kim et al (2017) proposed two models for logistic arrangements of drones in aided healthcare service. Finally, Kartawijaya et al (2019) tailored parameters, developed simulations for effective fleet size, and quantified an improved operator cost efficiency.…”

Section: Literature Review Of Drones In Emsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a Drone-Supported Emergency Medical Service

Nenni¹,

Pasquale²,

Miranda³

et al. 2020

IJTech

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There is a scientific consensus that the delivery of prompt emergency medical services (EMSs) guarantees a higher survival rate. An EMS is generally able to respond to 90% of higher priority calls in less than 9 minutes, with the best chance of survival being with a response time of 4-5 minutes. The major obstacle here is that a shorter response time would require the needed resources not to pass a certain threshold in a cost/benefit analysis. This paper aims to investigate the use of drones in as an EMS to improve response times. Although the literature already provides many examples of drones used for this purpose, they have all been developed as a prototype. This confirms the technical feasibility of a drone-based solution, but there is no evidence of the economic viability for such a service. The answer to this comes by analyzing the performance of an integratedwith-drones service as a whole. For this reason, we have redesigned the entire EMS model by including drones, and we have addressed the main issues, such as which types of service can be provided from drones, in which case, what the technical requirements for drones would be, and so on. Furthermore, we developed a specific procedure to keep the number of drones at a minimum level under the constraint of the minimum intervention time. The proposed model has been applied to a real EMS case for a city in the south of Italy. The outcome was that 96 drones were able to cover an area of 2,800 km 2 , providing an intervention time of 4.5 minutes on average at an annual cost of less than €300,000. These results highlight that an integrated-with-drones service drastically improves the response time when compared with the traditional service, doing so at a viable cost.

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Section: Literature Review Of Drones In Emsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a Drone-Supported Emergency Medical Service

Nenni¹,

Pasquale²,

Miranda³

et al. 2020

IJTech

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A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

Matinrad

Reuter-Oppermann

2021

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff shortage–creating extra challenges and constraints, especially during crisis times such as the COVID-19 pandemic–as well as long distances to sparsely populated areas resulting in longer response times. To overcome these issues and potentially reduce consequences of daily (medical) emergencies, several countries, such as Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands, have started initiatives using new types of human resources as well as equipment, which have not been part of the existing emergency systems before. These resources are employed in response to medical emergency cases if they can arrive earlier than emergency medical services (EMS). A good number of studies have investigated the use of these new types of resources in EMS systems, from medical, technical, and logistical perspectives as their study domains. Several review papers in the literature exist that focus on one or several of these new types of resources. However, to the best of our knowledge, no review paper that comprehensively considers all new types of resources in emergency medical response systems exists. We try to fill this gap by presenting a broad literature review of the studies focused on the different new types of resources, which are used prior to the arrival of EMS. Our objective is to present an application-based and methodological overview of these papers, to provide insights to this important field and to bring it to the attention of researchers as well as emergency managers and administrators.

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Is now the time to invest in emergency smart-navigated multiple-response quadcopter fleets?

Cited by 2 publications

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Development of a Drone-Supported Emergency Medical Service

Development of a Drone-Supported Emergency Medical Service

A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

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