A STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AED TAXIS IN CHIBA CITY

Abstract

The effectiveness of “AED Taxi,” in which cabs equipped with AEDs in all of their vehicles go to the site of cardiopulmonary arrest, was verified for Chiba City, and simulations based on the location characteristics of six wards confirmed that the population coverage rate in four wards was well over 90% and that the other two wards would achieve a coverage rate of about 80%. The overlap of reachable areas by multiple units was verified, and it was found that the evaluation of the certainty of AED transport differed greatly among wards with the same level of population coverage.