JETS receives GPS systems through federally funded program
By: Evan Carden - South Alabamian Editor
Jackson Emergency Transport Service (JETS) has taken a step forward in reducing the time it takes for its ambulances to respond to trauma situations thanks to a federally funded program initiated through the University of South Alabama (USA).
In 2000 USA established the Center for the Study of Vehicular Trauma, with the main objective of determining why the majority of automobile accidents that result in severe trauma or fatalities occur in rural areas. According to the center's director Glenn Cummings, the study took place in the seven southwest Alabama counties of Clarke, Washington, Mobile, Conecuh, Escambia, Baldwin and Monroe.
"We collected data from police crash reports, ambulance reports and 16 hospitals where the crash victims were treated and sent it to a statistician to be analyzed," he said. "We used the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of urban areas to determine which areas are considered rural because they do not meet that criteria."
Cummings said the locations of accidents were also looked at to identify where most of the accidents were taking place. Point identifiers listed on police reports were the indicators used to create geographic points to be plotted on the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Top photo: USA's Glenn Cummings (left) was in Jackson Tuesday to present JETS Director Kevin Brunson (center) with enough Automatic Vehicle Locator systems for all of the company's ambulances. Also on hand was EMT Henry Eubanks. Left photo: One of the locators already installed. (SA photos by Evan Carden)
"Based on the analysis, the response times and distances were associated with the mortality
of crash victims," he said. "By using this information, responders can reduce their response times using a moving map display on an automatic vehicle locator inside the ambulance. This helps medics navigate by providing them with the most efficient route to the scene."
JETS Director Kevin Brunson said thanks to the program, which is funded by the National Highway Safety Administration, all five of JETS' ambulances will be equipped with the system.
Brunson went on to thank USA for selecting them to participate in the program. "Thanks to today's technology, this will hopefully do what it is designed to do and help us save more lives," he said.
Jackson Emergency Transport Service (JETS) has taken a step forward in reducing the time it takes for its ambulances to respond to trauma situations thanks to a federally funded program initiated through the University of South Alabama (USA).
In 2000 USA established the Center for the Study of Vehicular Trauma, with the main objective of determining why the majority of automobile accidents that result in severe trauma or fatalities occur in rural areas. According to the center's director Glenn Cummings, the study took place in the seven southwest Alabama counties of Clarke, Washington, Mobile, Conecuh, Escambia, Baldwin and Monroe.
"We collected data from police crash reports, ambulance reports and 16 hospitals where the crash victims were treated and sent it to a statistician to be analyzed," he said. "We used the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of urban areas to determine which areas are considered rural because they do not meet that criteria."
Cummings said the locations of accidents were also looked at to identify where most of the accidents were taking place. Point identifiers listed on police reports were the indicators used to create geographic points to be plotted on the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Top photo: USA's Glenn Cummings (left) was in Jackson Tuesday to present JETS Director Kevin Brunson (center) with enough Automatic Vehicle Locator systems for all of the company's ambulances. Also on hand was EMT Henry Eubanks. Left photo: One of the locators already installed. (SA photos by Evan Carden)
"Based on the analysis, the response times and distances were associated with the mortality
of crash victims," he said. "By using this information, responders can reduce their response times using a moving map display on an automatic vehicle locator inside the ambulance. This helps medics navigate by providing them with the most efficient route to the scene."
JETS Director Kevin Brunson said thanks to the program, which is funded by the National Highway Safety Administration, all five of JETS' ambulances will be equipped with the system.
Brunson went on to thank USA for selecting them to participate in the program. "Thanks to today's technology, this will hopefully do what it is designed to do and help us save more lives," he said.
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