DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

Ambulancia, UVI, Ingeniería de Diseño, Programación lineal, Ambulance, ICU, Engineering design, Linear programming.

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

VARIOUS

ABSTRACT
The design of patient care space in life support ambulances or ICU vehicles is a complex activity; carried out by bodybuilders thanks to their knowhow and suggestions from medical personnel who work in them. The main reason for this complexity lies in the fact a particular item of equipment will be used by different personnel depending on the intervention in question. So, frequently workers’ hands interfere with each other while performing some actions because they simultaneously require materials far from them yet close to others. This article shows the real case of the patient care space design of the SUMMA 112 ICU vehicles, where all the medical-health materials and equipment have been located to optimise performance in the most critical and frequent operations.
Key words: Ambulance, ICU, Engineering design, Linear programming.