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Area of Science:

  • Emergency medicine
  • Public health
  • Mathematical modeling

Background:

  • Automated external defibrillator (AED) placement optimization can improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival.
  • Existing models often focus on coverage radius, neglecting the critical impact of defibrillation timing on survival outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To predict OHCA survival based on time to defibrillation.
  • To develop and evaluate a novel AED placement model that directly maximizes expected survival rates.

Main Methods:

  • Stratified OHCA data from Singapore (2010-2017) by defibrillation time.
  • Developed a regression model to predict survival and a new Maximum Expected Survival Rate (MESR) model for AED placement.
  • Compared MESR performance against a maximum coverage model using 10-fold cross-validation.

Main Results:

  • A power-law model achieved high accuracy (R²=91.33%) in predicting survival.
  • Survival rates drastically decrease with delayed defibrillation (54.9% within 2 minutes, >60% reduction by 4 minutes).
  • The MESR model significantly outperformed the maximum coverage model (P<0.05 in 22/30 experiments).

Conclusions:

  • A novel AED placement model was developed, incorporating the critical impact of defibrillation timing on OHCA survival.
  • Mathematical optimization of AED placement offers a significant strategy to enhance OHCA survival rates.