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Patient-Driven Resource Planning Of A Health Care Facility Evacuation, Bruno P. Petinaux, Kabir Yadav
Patient-Driven Resource Planning Of A Health Care Facility Evacuation, Bruno P. Petinaux, Kabir Yadav
Emergency Medicine Faculty Publications
Introduction: The evacuation of a health care facility is a complex undertaking, especially if done in an immediate fashion, ie, within minutes. Patient factors, such as continuous medical care needs, mobility, and comprehension, will affect the efficiency of the evacuation and translate into evacuation resource needs. Prior evacuation resource estimates are 30 years old.
Methods: Utilizing a cross-sectional survey of charge nurses of the clinical units in an urban, academic, adult trauma health care facility (HCF), the evacuation needs of hospitalized patients were assessed periodically over a two-year period.
Results: Survey data were collected on 2,050 patients. Units with patients …