Aplicação de técnicas do lean thinking às atividades logísticas dos transplantes de órgãos sólidos

Abstract

The Lean Thinking Techniques have been widely applied in industries; however they have also been effective in healthcare activities. Thus this study aimed to investigate the use of these techniques in the logistics activities of solid organs transplantation, trying to reduce its cycle time because time is the main and the most important constraint for transplantation operations. The research was developed in partnership with Organ Procurement Organization at the Clinic Hospital in State University of Campinas. The procedures involved the mapping of all logistics activities, into the transplantation processes, from the removal of the organ donor until its transplantation into the recipient. After process mapping, critical analyses were made to look for waste in each stage. Then a process redesign was proposed, trying to reduce the total lead time by reducing waste observed. So a hypothetical future state value stream mapping was drawn representing the processes with less waste. Some improvements were implemented, by applying the appropriate lean tool to the situation observed and finally, a new process was mapped in order to allow the comparison between lead times after and before the implementations. It is hoped this study verify the applicability of the lean thinking techniques as capable of adding important improvements to the logistics processes of solid organs transplantation, following the tendency of other healthcare-related activities.

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“…Value Stream Mapping (VSM) as a tool for identifying specific activities that occur along the value stream for a process. The main objective of this tool is to evaluate each stage of the processes, whether or not it creates value and demonstrates which improvements points, so that the process is optimized [13] apud [14].…”