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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2015.29.2.044

A Study on the Comparative Analysis of Fire-Fighting Ambulances about the Aspects of Safety and Efficiency using the Question Investigation  

Shin, Dong-Min (Dept. of Paramedic Science, Korea National Univ. of Transportation)
Kim, Seung-Yong (Dept. of Management Information System, Korea National Univ. of Transportation)
Han, Yong-Taek (Korea Fire Institute)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.29, no.2, 2015 , pp. 44-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is a survey research to improve the fire-fighting ambulance interior design safer and more efficient to identify the type of structure and functional problems 119 ambulance. When the paramedics and four degrees to over 755 people modify the target report and related literature on the future development of an ambulance for patient safety at the 2007 British National Patients Safety Agency (NPSA) and was used as a complementary tool. General characteristics questionnaire was composed of items for your design improvements for ambulance promote safety and efficiency. The data were collected by distributing a questionnaire e-mail or in person. The collected data were processed using the SPSS 20.0 statistical program, the general characteristics as frequency analysis, percentage, ambulance interior design improvement-related items were analyzed using the chi-square verified. As a result, this research elicited that vans converted fire ambulance cars have a problem with the narrow interior space and truck converted fire ambulance cars should be comfortable to drive in ride quality. In addition, we also found that the improvement of paramedics treatment position and the paramedic's personnel safety belt are required. Based on these results, we propose that a number of improvements are needed in the fire-fighting ambulance car.
Keywords
Survey rsearch; Fire-fighting ambulance; Paramedics; Chi-square verification;
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