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🏥 Hospital Emergency Department Queue and Staffing: 2D

Interactive top-down model of an emergency department as a queueing network: Poisson arrivals, triage nurses, acuity-prioritised doctors and walk-outs, with live waits, utilisation and an Erlang C comparison. Click rooms to put doctors on or off shift and fast-track patients.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for arrival rate, severity mix, doctors, triage nurses, treatment-time efficiency, triage time, patience, waiting-room capacity and speed, plus priority, walk-out and daily-rhythm toggles; click a room or desk to toggle that staff member, click a patient to inspect or fast-track; presets for quiet, busy, flu-surge, night and mass-casualty scenarios.

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⚙ Under the hood

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install