AN INDICATOR TO DETERMINE THE SURPLUS OR

DEFICIT OF THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN CRITICAL

CARE UNITS
T.R. Mora-García, M.F. Piña-Quintero, M.R. Ortiz-Posadas
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CDMX
posa@xanum.uam.mx
OBJECTIVE: Develop a method to evaluate the availability of medical equipment located in four critical care
areas of one Mexican Institute of Health (MIH): Intensive Care Unit (ICU), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU),
cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) and Surgery (Sx).

INTRODUCTION METODOLOGY
In this work, three productivity
indicator were developed: two
partial indicator and one global APLICATION
PARTIAL CLINICAL OF
indicator called: VARIABLES
INDICATOR INDICATOR
DEFINITION CLINICAL
Clinical Indicator (IC) DEFINITION DEFINITION
INDICATOR
The result was into [0,1] and was
interpreted by means of three
concepts:
• Deficit [IC → 1]: when the x1: Admissions number The
x2: Average stay-days
equipment is not enough to indicators
x3: Use hours a day
meet the patients demands were applied
x4: Medical equipment number
• Stable [1> IC ≥ 0.5]: when the x5: Out of service hours to 38 medical
equipment is sufficient to meet RESULTS equipment
the patients demand
• Surplus [IC → 0]: when there are Medical equipment demand
more medical equipment than (𝑥$ )(𝑥" )(𝑥% )
𝐼!$ = 𝐼"#
patients demand 𝑥& 𝐼! = #𝐼
"$
Medical equipment suply
ECG 𝐼!" = 𝑘 − 𝑥#

Medical Medical
Area equipment equipment IP1 IP2 IC Interpretation
quantity type
ICU 10 MSV 3964 8757 0.45
RHC 4 RHC 1382 8758 0.16
INC SURPLUS
1 ECG 2808 8759 0.32
MSV
5 V 4964 8747 0.45
CICU 3 V 4680 8749 0.54 STABLE
NICU 5 INC 6603 8759 0.75 DEFICIT
1 US 2889 8688 0.33
SURPLUS
EU V Sx 9 EU 4236 8758 0.48
US
CONCLUSION: The clinical indicator developed evaluates whether the number of medical equipment in a
medical service is enough to meet the patients demand.
§ ICU: in all case, has more medical equipment (surplus) than its patients demand
§ NICU has a deficit of incubators, so it will be necessary to plan the acquisition of new equipment
§ CICU has sufficient (stable) ventilators to meet the demand of patients, until now
§ Surgery, all the electrosurgical units were in surplus