Public access defibrillation initiatives make automated external defibrillators available to the
public. This facilitates earlier defibrillation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims and could …

Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their
existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are increasingly proposed for medical uses
due to their potential to transport medical supplies quickly and efficiently. A prototype …

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major health concern in China. The use of
automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has received great attention from Chinese public …

Determining the positions of facilities, and allocating demands to them, is a vitally important
problem. Location-allocation problems are optimization NP-hard procedures. This article …

In emergency response volunteer programs, volunteers in the vicinity of an emergency are
alerted via their mobile phones to the scene of the event to perform a specific task. Tasks are …

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) causes a high mortality rate each year, which is a
threat to human well-being and health. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is an …

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are regarded as the most important public facility
after fire extinguishers due to their importance to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) …

In countries such as Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, projects in which
volunteers are dispatched to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients with the use of …

Background Mathematical optimization of automated external defibrillator (AED) placement
may improve AED accessibility and out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcomes …