Enhancing performance and safety in ambulances through improved design standards / Deogratias Kibira, Y. Tina Lee, Mehdi Dadfarnia.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Kibira, Deogratias, author.

Lee, Y. Tina, author.

Dadfarnia, Mehdi, author.

Contributor:

Dadfarnia, Mehdi, author.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)

Series:

NIST technical note ; 1741.

NIST technical note ; 1741

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambulances.

Automobiles--Design and construction.

Automobiles.

Human engineering.

Motor vehicles--Design and construction.

Motor vehicles.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 8 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This paper describes how modeling and simulation can play a major role in developing standards recommendations for patient compartment layout of automotive ambulances in the United States to improve performance and safety. Acquiring necessary information from relevant stakeholders is shown as a method that can be used to determine user design requirements. The requirements will in turn be used to develop design concepts taking into consideration human interface with the ambulance work environment. The modeling and simulation of clinical care activities in the ambulance can be used to evaluate the design concepts and determine those that would better meet safety and performance requirements.

Notes:

"CODEN: NTNOEF"--Title page verso.

"May 2012"

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Systems Integration Division, Engineering Laboratory

OCLC:

797162111

Publisher Number:

GOVPUB-C13-1c271b1bcaad66fc212ba0d16ea436aa

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access