Abstract
Fast, effective, and accurate emergency medical treatment can save lives. Quick access to the specific equipment that emergency medical personnel need facilitates more efficacious treatment during emergencies. This project focuses on designing an improved emergency response kit for medical first responders. The kit currently in use has no organizational standard for the way the medical items it contains are placed inside. With a user-centered method, we designed a kit that better fits first responders’ requirements and found that the kit – a backpack and a vest – is both easier to use and carry, based on emergency care priorities.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 11-17 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Ergonomics in Design |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Oct 2020 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- emergency medical service
- emergency response kit
- first responder
- motor-vehicle collisions
- user-centered design
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- General Engineering
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