Designing a First Responders’ Emergency Response Kit for Motor-Vehicle Collisions

• Yuval Bitan ^[1] ; Amit Shreiber ^[1] ; Gili Zafon ^[1] ; Eli Jaffe ^[2]
  1. [1] Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Israel

     
  2. [2] Magen David Adom (MDA) (Israel)
• Localización: Ergonomics in Design: The Quaterly of Human Factors Applications, ISSN 1064-8046, Vol. 28, Nº. 4, 2020, págs. 11-17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.