Generating and managing realistic victims for medical disaster simulations

  • Authors:

  • Filip Van Utterbeeck;Christophe Ullrich;Erwin Dhondt;Erwin Dhondt;Michel Debacker;Jana Lee Murray;Steven Van Campen

  • Affiliations:

  • Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium;Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium;Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Neder-Over-Heembeek, Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;CAE - Professional Services (Canada) Inc., Ottawa, Canada;E-Semble, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a methodology to generate realistic victim profiles for medical disaster simulations based on victims from the VictimBase library. We apply these profiles in a medical disaster model where victim entities evolve in parallel through a medical response model and a victim pathway model. These models interact in correspondence with the time triggers and intervention triggers from VictimBase. We show how such a model can be used to assess the impact of asset availability and implemented victim prioritisation rule on the clinical condition of the victims.