1. Simulation-based Analysis of Co-dispatching in Prehospital Stroke Care.
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Mahdiraji, Saeid Amouzad, Holmgren, Johan, Mihailescu, Radu-Casian, and Petersson, Jesper
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AMBULANCES ,EMERGENCY medical services ,STROKE units ,STROKE ,TRANSPORTATION of patients ,STROKE patients - Abstract
A mobile stroke unit (MSU) is a specialized ambulance, enabling to shorten the time to diagnosis and treatment for stroke patients. In the current paper, we present a simulation-based approach to study the potential impacts of collaborative use of regular ambulances and MSUs in prehospital transportation for stroke patients, denoted as co-dispatching. We integrated a co-dispatch policy in an existing modeling framework for constructing emergency medical services simulation models. In a case study, we applied the extended framework to southern Sweden to evaluate the effectiveness of using the co-dispatch policy for different types of stroke. The results indicate reduced time to diagnosis and treatment for stroke patients when using the co-dispatch policy compared to the situation where either a regular ambulance or an MSU is assigned for a stroke incident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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