Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach

Bernardo Villarreal; Fernando González Aleu; Arturo Quezada; Gabriela Morales; Aracely Carranza; José Arturo Garza-Reyes

Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach

Bernardo Villarreal^*, Fernando González Aleu, Arturo Quezada, Gabriela Morales, Aracely Carranza, José Arturo Garza-Reyes

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Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica

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Abstract

The measure of ambulance cycle time is of particular interest in the performance of Emergency Medical Systems (EMS). Its value determines the ambulance capacity of the operations system of an EMS institution. For a given number of ambulances in operation, as the value of the average ambulance cycle time increases, total ambulance capacity for the system is reduced. Additional impacts resulting from this situation are; an increase on the average ambulance response time and patient's health risk due to the unavailability of ambulances; and a greater need of ambulance replacement investment requirements and operating cost. This work suggests an improvement approach based on Theory of Constraints (TOC) and elimination of waste for reducing ambulance cycle time. The approach is applied to a Mexican EMS institution based on metropolitan Monterrey. Results of the application are provided.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018
Publisher	IEOM Society
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
Volume	2018-March
ISBN (Print)	9781532359446
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018
Event	8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018 - Bandung, Indonesia Duration: 6 Mar 2018 → 8 Mar 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Volume	2018-March
ISSN (Electronic)	2169-8767

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Conference	8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018
Country/Territory	Indonesia
City	Bandung
Period	6/3/18 → 8/3/18

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Strategy and Management
Management Science and Operations Research
Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Villarreal, B., Aleu, F. G., Quezada, A., Morales, G., Carranza, A., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2018). Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018 (Vol. 2018-March, pp. 1-3). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management; Vol. 2018-March). IEOM Society.

Villarreal, Bernardo ; Aleu, Fernando González ; Quezada, Arturo et al. / Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018. Vol. 2018-March IEOM Society, 2018. pp. 1-3 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

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Villarreal, B, Aleu, FG, Quezada, A, Morales, G, Carranza, A & Garza-Reyes, JA 2018, Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018. vol. 2018-March, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, vol. 2018-March, IEOM Society, pp. 1-3, 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018, Bandung, Indonesia, 6/3/18.

Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach. / Villarreal, Bernardo; Aleu, Fernando González; Quezada, Arturo et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018. Vol. 2018-March IEOM Society, 2018. p. 1-3 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management; Vol. 2018-March).

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Villarreal B, Aleu FG, Quezada A, Morales G, Carranza A, Garza-Reyes JA. Increasing ambulance capacity with a lean TOC approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018. Vol. 2018-March. IEOM Society. 2018. p. 1-3. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

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