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1678. Optimizing Emergency Medical Service Capacity to a Mass Casualty Incident: Balancing with Routine Emergency Medical Service Demands
Invited abstract in session MB-10: EMS and crisis logistics, stream OR in Health Services (ORAHS).
Monday, 10:30-12:00Room: 11 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Inkyung Sung
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| Materials and Production, Aalborg University | |
| 2. | Peter Nielsen
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| Aalborg University |
Abstract
This study addresses the dynamics of an emergency medical service (EMS) system during the response to mass casualty incidents (MCIs), where timely and efficient decision-making is crucial to save more lives. The key decisions to efficiently respond to an MCI with limited EMS resources, such as ambulances and hospitals, include ambulance allocation to the MCI, balancing with response capacity for routine EMS demands, and hospital transportation for MCI victims, thereby avoiding congestion at the hospitals. A mathematical model is developed to represent the relationships between the decisions involved in the MCI response phase and the relevant EMS performance metrics. Based on the model, numerical analysis is conducted with the aim of offering insights into protocol and policy design for EMS systems during the MCI response.
Keywords
- Practice of OR
- Health Care
- Strategic Planning and Management
Status: accepted
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