Optimization of the Casualties’ Treatment Process: Blended Military Experiment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60162694%3AG38__%2F20%3A00555875" target="_blank" >RIV/60162694:G38__/20:00555875 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60162694:G42__/20:00555875

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/6/706" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/6/706</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22060706" target="_blank" >10.3390/e22060706</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Optimization of the Casualties’ Treatment Process: Blended Military Experiment

Original language description

At the battalion level, NATO ROLE1 medical treatment command focuses on the provision of primary health care being the very first physician and higher medical equipment intervention for casualty treatments. ROLE1 has paramount importance in casualty reductions, representing a complex system in current operations. This study deals with an experiment on the optimization of ROLE1 according to the key parameters of the numbers of physicians, the number of ambulances and the distance between ROLE1 and the current battlefield. The very first step in the study is to design and implement a model of current battlefield casualties. The model uses friction data generated from an already executed Computer Assisted Exercise (CAX) while employing a constructive simulation to produce offense and defence scenarios on the flow of casualties. The next step in the study is to design and implement a model representing transportation to ROLE1, its structure and behaviour. The deterministic model of ROLE1, employing system dynamics simulation paradigm, uses the previously generated casualty flows as the inputs representing human decision making processes through the recorder CAX events. A factorial experimental design for the ROLE1 model revealed the recommended variants of the ROLE1 structure for both offensive and defensive operations. The overall recommendation is for the internal structure of ROLE1 to have three ambulances and three physicians for any kind of current operation and any distance between ROLE1 and the current battlefield within the limit of 20 minutes. This study provides novelty in the methodology of casualty estimations involving human decision-making factors as well as the optimization of medical treatment processes through experimentation with the process model.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10300 - Physical sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Entropy

ISSN

1099-4300

e-ISSN

1099-4300

Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

706

UT code for WoS article

000551076500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088240044