Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions.

ABSTRACT: This study seeks to improve the safety of clinical care provided in operating rooms (OR) by examining how characteristics of both the physical environment and the procedure affect surgical team movement and contacts. We video recorded staff movements during a set of surgical procedures. Then we divided the OR into multiple zones and analyzed the frequency and duration of movement from origin to destination through zones. This data was abstracted into a generalized, agent-based, discrete event simulation model to study how OR size and OR equipment layout affected surgical staff movement and total number of surgical team contacts during a procedure. A full factorial experiment with seven input factors - OR size, OR shape, operating table orientation, circulating nurse (CN) workstation locati

SUBMITTER: Taaffe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10369668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature