Air Mobility Research for Undergraduates

摘要

This report deals with the simulation of medical systems, both within the military and the civilian world, complete with scheduling problems and employment of optimal techniques to improve clinic performance based upon several criteria, including time in clinic per patient and assets required to serve the patient population. Problems of this sort fall into a category known as hybrid systems, which are characterized as problems having both discrete and continuous elements. Additionally, hybrid systems are characterized by having large numbers of interlocking subsystems, and changes made to any one of these causes rippling effects to all. In the case of a medical system, such interactive subsystems include the doctors, nurses, technicians, and patients in concert with record keeping, layout, other hospital clinics, lab work, medications, and tools used in the clinic, such as EKG machines and portable X- ray machines. The paper describes simulations of emergency services provided at the 375th Medical Group Emergency Department at Scott Air Force Base and the Missouri Baptist Hospital emergency department in St. Louis, MO. The 375th Medical Group simulation included a medium-to-large mass casualty situation. A third simulation involved the scheduling of medical residents' workload at a group of hospitals associated with the Duke University Medical System. (5 figures).