Emergency Room Triage

Emergency departments never have enough beds or staff for every patient to be treated the instant they arrive, so triage decides who goes next. This simulation models a stream of patients arriving with random severity, waiting in a queue, and being assigned to a limited pool of treatment beds under one of two rules: priority-based triage (sickest first) or naive first-come-first-served. Untreated patients deteriorate the longer they wait, and an unattended critical patient becomes an adverse event — watch how the same arrival load produces very different outcomes depending on the triage strategy and bed capacity you choose.