Preemption of Patient

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Abel van der Windt asked Apr 5, '19 Matthew Gillespie answered Apr 5, '19

Preemption of Patient

I am modelling a surgery room + recovery room. After a surgery patient are brought to the recovery room. During the recovery, however, it is possible that a patient arrives which has priority. If the recovery room is full at that moment, one of the patients in the recovery room has to be transported by staff to another location.

How is it possible to preempt a patient instead of staff?

Regards,

Abel

hctraining-12.fsm

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FlexSim 19.0.2

people module preemption

preemption-patient.png (42.3 KiB)

hctraining-12.fsm (64.0 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2019-04-05T23:31:58Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Apr 5, '19

I would have the higher priority patient preempt a recovery bed. You can do this by having the priority of the Recovery Room set to 200 or higher for the higher priority patient. Then you'll want to add the Acquired Recovery Room as a Preemptable resource in the Recovery process activity. In its On Preempt event release the token to another set of activities that acquire a new bed and staff+transport to take them over there. See my attached model:

preemptbed.fsm

preemptbed.fsm (71.4 KiB)

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