Applying human factors design principles for improving the development and deployment of paramedic response bags

由于辅助医疗这一学科相对较新，许多护理人员的操作方式仍然基于 从医院环境中继承下来的做法。不幸的是，这些做法并不总是被修改为 适应护理人员工作的独特环境，其后果最终可能影响 护理人员及其病人的健康和安全。 不列颠哥伦比亚省兰利的Firetech制造公司定制制造高度耐用的急救和创伤袋 北美各地的医护人员。然而，其包包的实际设计是由客户驱动的，结果是 最好的产品并不总是能买到的。除了非常笨重，目前使用的响应 袋子既没有被隔开，也没有清楚地贴上标签，从而阻碍了快速接触设备和 药物和液体之间的潜在混淆。这可能会对患者造成重大伤害，无论何时 药物选择不准确。将此类错误降至最低，尤其是在极端时间下运行时 在压力较大的情况下，工作环境必须始终如一，组织有序。 拟议项目的目标是研究当前的辅助医疗实践，并推荐潜在的新设计。 对于Firetech制造的护理响应袋，最终应该会改善患者的状况 安全和降低潜在风险。利用成熟的人因设计和评估技术，我们 将研究护理人员在使用响应袋时的行为，并利用研究结果提出 新颖的响应袋设计，提高了护理人员的准确性，增加了患者的安全性。我们的目标是 与Firetech的预期长期合作关系是建立一种合理的研发方法，将 北美各地护理服务的不同需求，用于定义响应袋的规格 他们打算部署的。这也可能导致为该行业建立标准，这是 目前严重缺乏，经常阻碍人员和程序的交流。 不同的EMS组织。

Because the discipline of paramedicine is relatively new, much of how paramedics operate is still based on practices inherited from hospital settings. Unfortunately those practices have not always been modified to accommodate the unique environment in which paramedics work, with consequences that can ultimately affect the health and safety of both paramedics and their patients. Firetech Manufacturing of Langley, BC custom fabricates highly durable emergency and trauma bags for paramedics across North America. The actual designing of its bags is customer driven, however, with the result that the best possible products are not always acquired. In addition to being very bulky, presently used response bags are neither compartmentalised nor clearly labelled, thus impeding rapid access to equipment and leading to potential confusion among drugs and fluids. This can result in significant harm to patients whenever medications are selected inaccurately. To minimise such errors, especially when operating under extreme time pressure, the working environment must be consistent and well organised. The goal of the proposed project is to study current paramedic practices and recommend potential new designs for the paramedic response bags that Firetech manufactures, changes that should ultimately improve patient safety and mitigate potential risk. Using well established human factors design and evaluation techniques, we will study paramedics' behaviours when utilising response bags and use the results of the study to propose novel response bag designs, to improve paramedic accuracy and increase patient safety. The goal of our anticipated long-term relationship with Firetech is to establish a rational R&D methodology, incorporating the diverse needs of paramedic services across North America, for defining the specifications for the response bags that they intend to deploy. This may also lead to the establishment of standards for the industry, something that is presently sorely lacking and which frequently impedes the interchange of personnel and procedures across different EMS organisations.