CREW CAPABILITY EVALUATION FOR HELICOPTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE OPERATIONS - DETAILED METHODOLOGY

Helicopter medical emergency service operations are life saving missions with reaction time a critical issue for mission accomplishment. Presently, crew knowledge and experience govern the pre-mission analysis of the operations. No computing tools are available for pre-mission analysis and to support crew decision making on. This paper presents a methodology to evaluate required crew capability for pre-mission analysis of helicopter emergency medical operations and discusses the issues related to its implementation into a decision support system.