Nuevo sistema de geolocalización en Navarra para disminuir los tiempos de respuesta en aviso urgente en zonas de montaña y de gran dispersión

Abstract

Identification of all urgent home alerts in mountainous and dispersed areas through the 112 system is normally done using the name of the farmhouse or dwelling, which makes it impossible to localize them with normal GPS means. The aim of this article is to obtain a valid geolocation system in out-of-hospital emergencies that is adapted to the nomenclature and geography of the area, and that can be implanted in all mobile health devices. This will provide exact precision without any loss of time in journeys, so as to avoid an increase in morbidity and mortality due to delays in attention given by professionals, whether or not they know the area. It should be possible to extrapolate this system to other points in the geography of Navarre and Spain. A geolocation tool was created adapted to the orography and specific nomenclature of the chosen pilot area (the Baztan valley) and it was made compatible with the two possible modes of current navigational software, with and without mobile data coverage (on line and off line). This system was integrated into non-corporative health mobile phones using KML archives and applied to the 913 geolocated farmhouses, with its real utility verified in the urgent home alerts registered between the months of May and September 2012. It was possible to reach the farmhouse (routing) requiring urgent attention without getting lost on the road or forest route, irrespective of access characteristics, because the localization of the destination had been registered beforehand in these files (this is the great difference with current GPS systems).