Hospital Disaster Management – Evacuation of Perinatal Intensive Care Units Based on Emergency Management Plan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the special cases of a fire in a hospital especially in a perinatal intensive  department, that may be encountered by the firefighters.  Due to these special circumstances, the evacuation time of  the facility can be significantly increased. There are unusual  evacuation and rescue methods, which require  special devices and more intense human resources. The  evacuation requirement of a hospital is more than a usual  evacuation plan, the goal is to maintain the health care  services during and after the evacuation, so it is necessary  to apply the Evacuation Plan of the Hospital Disaster Plan  during a fire evacuation. This requires much more accurate  and complex training from both the firefighters and the  medical staff. Also, its effectiveness depends to a large extent on the architectural and fire protection design of the building, its modernity, the available medical and rescue  equipment and the number of medical staff. The study  examines the approximation and joint applicability of the  plans above, based on the experience of a hospital  evacuation exercise.