Impact of Collegiate Football Games on Emergency Response Intervals: A Case Study of College Station, Texas (USA).

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q2 EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI:10.1017/S1049023X24000487

Christine Crudo Blackburn, Mayra Rico

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Abstract

Objectives: Little is known about how mass gatherings affect emergency response intervals. Previous research suggests that college football games increase ambulance transport intervals, but their impact on emergency response intervals is unexplored. This study examines how collegiate home football games in College Station, Texas (USA) affect emergency vehicle response intervals.

Methods: The study determined the impact of collegiate football games on emergency response intervals using incident data provided by the College Station Fire Department (CSFD). Home games during the 2021-2023 Texas A&M University (TAMU) football seasons were the period of interest. Responses for a 72-hour period (Friday-Sunday) on home game weekends (HGWs) and non-home game weekends (NHGWs) were included (n = 5,095).

Results: Response intervals on football HGWs were an average of 30 seconds faster than on NHGWs. Emergency vehicles were 16.5% less likely to respond from fire station locations on HGWs compared to NHGWs. There was also a 12.1% increase in the number of calls to campus locations and a 9.7% increase in calls to the local entertainment district on HGWs compared to NHGWs.

Conclusions: Home collegiate football games do not delay response intervals for emergency response vehicles. Further research is needed to determine if these findings can be reproduced in other communities.

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大学橄榄球赛对应急响应间隔的影响：美国德克萨斯州大学站案例研究》。

目标：人们对人群聚集如何影响急救响应间隔知之甚少。以前的研究表明，大学足球比赛会增加救护车的运送间隔，但其对应急响应间隔的影响尚未得到探讨。本研究探讨了美国得克萨斯州学院站的大学生主场橄榄球赛如何影响急救车响应间隔：本研究利用学院站消防队（CSFD）提供的事故数据，确定了大学生橄榄球赛对急救响应时间间隔的影响。研究时段为 2021-2023 年德克萨斯农工大学（TAMU）橄榄球赛季的主场比赛。包括主场比赛周末（HGW）和非主场比赛周末（NHGW）72 小时内（周五至周日）的响应（n = 5,095）：足球主场周末的响应时间比非主场周末平均快 30 秒。与 NHGW 相比，紧急车辆在 HGW 上从消防站位置出发的可能性降低了 16.5%。与 NHGW 相比，在 HGW 上拨打到校园地点的电话增加了 12.1%，拨打到当地娱乐区的电话增加了 9.7%：主场大学足球比赛不会延迟应急车辆的响应时间间隔。还需要进一步研究，以确定这些发现是否能在其他社区重现。

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Medicine-Emergency Medicine

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