Abstract
Medical disaster management research aims at identifying methodologies and rules of best practice and
evaluates performance and outcome indicators for medical disaster management. However, the conduct of
experimental studies is either impossible or ethically inappropriate.
We generate realistic victim profiles for medical disaster simulations based on medical expertise. These
profiles are used in a medical disaster model where victim entities evolve in parallel through a medical
response model and a victim pathway model. The medical response model focuses on the pre-hospital
phase which includes triage procedures, evacuation processes and medical processes. Medical decisions
such as whether to evacuate or to treat the current victim are based on the RPM (respiratory rate, pulse
rate, motor response) parameters of the victim. We present results for a simulated major road accident and
show how the level of resource can influence outcome indicators.
evaluates performance and outcome indicators for medical disaster management. However, the conduct of
experimental studies is either impossible or ethically inappropriate.
We generate realistic victim profiles for medical disaster simulations based on medical expertise. These
profiles are used in a medical disaster model where victim entities evolve in parallel through a medical
response model and a victim pathway model. The medical response model focuses on the pre-hospital
phase which includes triage procedures, evacuation processes and medical processes. Medical decisions
such as whether to evacuate or to treat the current victim are based on the RPM (respiratory rate, pulse
rate, motor response) parameters of the victim. We present results for a simulated major road accident and
show how the level of resource can influence outcome indicators.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2432-2443 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |