TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing a First Responders’ Emergency Response Kit for Motor-Vehicle Collisions
AU - Bitan, Yuval
AU - Shreiber, Amit
AU - Zafon, Gili
AU - Jaffe, Eli
N1 - Funding Information:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7053-7012 Bitan Yuval Shreiber Amit Zafon Gili Jaffe Eli 11 2019 1064804619886936 © 2019 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2019 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 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. emergency medical service motor-vehicle collisions first responder emergency response kit user-centered design Israeli Research Fund of Insurance Matters edited-state corrected-proof The authors would like to thank Ela Liberman Pincu for her assistance in the detailed design, and all the first responders who shared their knowledge and experience with us. The study was supported by the Israeli Research Fund of Insurance Matters.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by The Author(s).
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - emergency medical service
KW - emergency response kit
KW - first responder
KW - motor-vehicle collisions
KW - user-centered design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075167288&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1064804619886936
DO - 10.1177/1064804619886936
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075167288
SN - 1064-8046
VL - 28
SP - 11
EP - 17
JO - Ergonomics in Design
JF - Ergonomics in Design
IS - 4
ER -