2018 Volume 41 Issue 3 Pages 33-41
This study aims to contribute to building a collaborative society in Japan by showing the impact of collaboration-based problem solving generated by municipal government data sharing. The study examines how many additional cardiac arrest deaths could have been saved if the nearest AED was delivered to the patient's location immediately after the city fire department received the 119 (emergency) call. The potential number of increased survivors is calculated by simulating how many minutes can be shortened from the elapsed time between receipt of the 119 call and arrival of the nearest AED to the patient's location using immediate AED delivery. Based on a simulation using Tsukuba City Fire Department 119 calls received in the past 10 years, Tsukuba City could have saved 21.05 deaths in 10 years, which means an average of 2.11 deaths per year.
