Reducing ambulance response time using simulation: The case of Val-de-Marne department Emergency Medical service

Jemaı̈, Zied; Aboueljinane, Lina; Şahin, Evren

doi:10.1109/wsc.2012.6465018

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“…The fact that decentralised emergency vehicle location at holding points produced better response time performance in this model is not surprising, and it corroborates other data on the importance of emergency vehicle proximity to incidents [25][26][27][28][29][30][31], albeit using a baseline model that is more expansive and complex. Although the location of emergency vehicles at holding points and their demand-based movement between holding points requires a greater degree of organisation and control from a dispatching perspective, the benefits of this approach for response time performance have been clearly demonstrated.…”

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The Effect of the Emergency Medical Services Vehicle Location and Response Strategy on Response Times

Stein

Wallis

Adetunji

2015

sajie

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Response time is currently considered to be an important performance indicator in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. A number of factors may affect response times, including the location of emergency vehicles and the type of response system design used. This study aimed to assess the effects of emergency vehicle location and response system design on response time performance in a model of a large South African urban EMS system, using discrete-event simulation. Results indicated that both the emergency vehicle location and response system design factors had a significant effect on response time performance, with more decentralised vehicle location having a greater effect. OPSOMMINGReaksietyd word tans beskou as 'n belangrike prestasie-indikator in mediese nooddienste sisteme. Verskeie faktore mag die reaksietyd beïnvloed. Die doel van die studie is om die effek van die ligging van noodvoertuie en die tipe reaksie-sisteemontwerp op die reaksietyd te ondersoek binne die konteks van 'n Suid Afrikaanse stedelike gebied deur gebruik te maak van diskrete-gebeurtenis simulasie. Resultate dui daarop dat beide die ligging van noodvoertuie en die reaksie-sisteemontwerp die reaksietyd beïnvloed. Hoe meer gedesentraliseer die voertuie se plasing was, hoe beter was die effek op die reaksietyd.

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The Effect of the Emergency Medical Services Vehicle Location and Response Strategy on Response Times

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Wallis

Adetunji

2015

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“…It was found that the simulation was able to achieve this because of its ability to both store attribute values and to show queuing levels at an individual product level [9]. In batch manufacturing systems, the flow of products can be monitored and optimized to propose a better layout design and work distribution using simulation models [10]. Overlong waiting time in emergency services is an important matter which has negative influence on healthcare quality [11].…”

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A case study on Simulation and Design optimization to improve Productivity in cooling tower manufacturing industry

Nithin

Gopikrishnan

Sumesh³

2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Abstract. Cooling towers are the heat transfer devices commonly found in industries which are used to extract the high temperature from the coolants and make it reusable in various plants. Basically, the cooling towers has Fills made of PVC sheets stacked together to increase the surface area exposure of the cooling liquid flowing through it. This paper focuses on the study in such a manufacturing plant where fills are being manufactured. The productivity using the current manufacturing method was only 6 to 8 fills per day, where the ideal capacity was of 14 fills per day. In this plant manual labor was employed in the manufacturing process. A change in the process modification designed and implemented will help the industry to increase the productivity to 14. In this paper, initially the simulation study was done using ARENA the simulation package and later the new design was done using CAD Package and validated using Ansys Mechanical APDL. It's found that, by the implementation of the safe design the productivity can be increased to 196 Units.

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“…System success criterion is to respond distress calls as quickly as possible; however, a number of matters such as heavy traffic, unexpected failures and lack of idle resource cause delay and affect the survival rates in possible catastrophic cases. Aboueljinane et al (2012) utilize DES to analyze seven scenarios, which comprises dynamic changes in existing Val-de-Marne department's emergency medical service with the aim of improving response time and compare results with the original organization. In a different study, Aboueljinane et al (2014) apply DES to improve the process of the same system, which aims to respond calls in 20 min, with five different strategies.…”

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An ILP and simulation model to optimize search and rescue helicopter operations

Karataş

Razi

Günal

2017

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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Maritime search and rescue (SAR) operations, conducted for rendering aid to the victims in need of help at sea, play a crucial role in dropping the number of causalities. Therefore, it is of high importance to organize SAR operations properly. In this paper, we compose a hybrid methodology which combines optimization and simulation to allocate SAR helicopters. First, we build an integer linear programming (ILP) model to provide an effective deployment plan and use it as an input to a simulation model which includes constraints that the ILP model cannot tackle. Next, using a rule-based algorithm, we generate alternative solutions and seek better plans that exist in the vicinity of the ILP model solution. We perform our methodology on the historical incident data in the Aegean Sea region. Results show that the hybrid methodology we adopted leads to a more effective utilization of resources than the optimization model alone.

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Reducing ambulance response time using simulation: The case of Val-de-Marne department Emergency Medical service

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

The Effect of the Emergency Medical Services Vehicle Location and Response Strategy on Response Times

The Effect of the Emergency Medical Services Vehicle Location and Response Strategy on Response Times

A case study on Simulation and Design optimization to improve Productivity in cooling tower manufacturing industry

An ILP and simulation model to optimize search and rescue helicopter operations

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