Maximizing Cardiac Surgery Throughput at a Major Hospital

Carter Price, Timothy Babineau, Bruce Golden, Bartley Griffith and Edward Wasil

International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation (ICHSS 2008)
Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel, Ottawa, Canada, April 14-17, 2008

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Summary

A simulation model is used to analyze the bed mix for a cardiac surgery intensive care unit and its step-down unit. The model uses historical length of stay data from more than 1,700 cardiac surgery encounters to estimate the maximum capacity of a 30 bed post-operative unit. The results of the simulation indicate that by altering the current mix of ICU and step-down beds the maximum number of surgeries increases by nearly 17%. In addition to volume estimates, an analysis of the costs associated with the options is presented.

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