TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Acceptability and perceived utility of drone technology among emergency medical service responders and incident commanders for mass casualty incident management
JO  - American journal of disaster medicine
A1  - Hart, Alexander
A1  - Chai, Peter R.
A1  - Griswold, Matthew K.
A1  - Lai, Jeffrey T.
A1  - Boyer, Edward W.
A1  - Broach, John
SP  - 261
EP  - 265
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to understand the acceptability and perceived utility of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology to Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) scene management. <br><br>DESIGN: Qualitative questionnaires regarding the ease of operation, perceived usefulness, and training time to operate UAVs were administered to Emergency Medical Technicians (n = 15). SETTING: A Single Urban New England Academic Tertiary Care Medical Center. PARTICIPANTS: Front-line emergency medical service (EMS) providers and senior EMS personnel in Incident Commander roles. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Data from this pilot study indicate that EMS responders are accepting to deploying and operating UAV technology in a disaster scenario. Additionally, they perceived UAV technology as easy to adopt yet impactful in improving MCI scene management.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1932-149X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2017.0279
ID  - ref1
ER  -