Creating Digital Rescue Sheets.

Rescue sheets enable rescue personnel to timely extricate trapped victims of road traffic accidents and increase their chance of survival. However, in the year 2024, these rescue sheets are still paper based DIN A4 documents. The digital transformation of the rescue process through new reporting technologies, such as eCall or the International Standard Accident Number (ISAN) facilitates digital rescue sheets, providing benefits for availability and functionality. This work addresses design considerations raised by previous research to suggest a process for the creation of digital rescue sheets. Our process transforms high-resolution models provided by car manufacturers and vendors into small files by shape abstraction of the components. The system maps the body of the car to generic representative models of defined car body types reducing the number of models that need to be stored. We develop a hierarchical tree data structure with three levels that allows appending new components of the increasingly complex cars. Our data format for transmission of the rescue sheet sends all relevant data for visualization while still retaining a small file size to account for a poor internet connection. In the future, we aim to evaluate our approach involving car manufacturers and other stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]