Simulation Model for Evaluating Intensive Care Unit Capacity
Simulation Model for Evaluating Intensive Care Unit Capacity
Author : TRISHA GILANG SARASWATI Published on : Emerging Trends in Academic Research (ETAR) 2014 (Global Illuminators - Bali Indonesia)
Abstract
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is the busiest unit in hospital that provides intensive care for people who are in a critically ill or unstable condition. The ICU closely related to the availability of capacity, which can be measured by the availability of bed, since it will affect the service provided by the ICU. The capacity itself cannot be too large or too small, so the effective and efficient number of capacity needed to be measure to anticipate cost and market loss. This paper employed simulation model using Arena Simulation Software to evaluate ICU capacity by considering the priority principle of patient that was applied in one of hospital as a case study and to confirm the validity of the simulation model. The proposed capacity evaluation model through simulation is expected to help identify and evaluate alternatives. The result suggests the proposed simulation model to be applied to evaluate ICU capacity since it can be used to identify and evaluate alternatives related to the capacity expansion which can be performed in the ICU with preference of average bed utilization rate.
