Abstract

Determining Optimum Ambulance Locations For Heart Attack Cases With GIS
Track: Emergency Medical Services/Fire
Authors: Serpil Ates, Mehmet Coskun, Arif Aydinoglu

Health care has been one of the basic human need since the beginning of the human life and if emergency medical services fails that will cause irreversible consequences.Well-defined system requirements and the organization of Emergency Medical Services must be fully established to perform their roles on time and effective way, especially in situations that require urgent intervention such as heart attack.Relationship between disease density and location can be established by disease maps and as a consequence with specific reponse time, optimum ambulance locations can be determined to reach to the required position.The aim of this study is to provide optimum distribution of ambulance stations which provide EMS in Istanbul without exceeding standard heart attack response time.In this context, existing ambulance locations' service areas are determined with Network Analyis. As a result, optimum ambulance locations and number of the ambulances are defined with respect to heart attack response time in Istanbul.