Hospital Preparedness foe Mass Casualties
Publish place: Promotion of Crisis Management in Disasters
Publish Year: 1385
Type: Conference paper
Language: English
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Index date: 19 February 2006
Hospital Preparedness foe Mass Casualties abstract
Introduction: Disasters and incidents with hundreds, thousands , or tens of thousands casualties are not generally addressed in hospital disaster plans.
Materials & Method: Attendees discussed a large number of issues and preparedness needs grouped.
• Community – wide preparedness,
• Staffing,
• Communications, and
• Public policy.
Finally, resources for mass casualty preparedness have to compete with other initiatives hospitals are being encouraged to adopt at the present time. These include, in no particular order.
• Billing system accuracy and compliance
• Safer needless and needless systems
• Limitations on medical device reuse
• Medical error reduction
• Privacy and security of personal medical information
• Medication error reduction
• New requirements for restraint and seclusion
• Reduce solid wastes, especially of heavy metals
• Ergonomic standards for employees
• Reduce solid wastes, especially of heavy metals
• Heightened productivity to meet Balanced Act payment target
• Uniform billing procedures and processes for all payers
Existing preparedness requirements such as providing full-time emergency services, sufficient numbers of personnel, JCAHO standards for the “Emergency Preparedness Management Plan. This paper was assessment and survey of hospitals prepardness on health care of our country.
Conclusions: Throughout this paper, there are numerous observations, recommendations, and strategies suggested by attendees to the Invitational Forum on Hospital Preparedness foe Mass Casualties at their March 8-9 , 2000 meeting. Rather than repeat each of them, this conclusion seeks to highlight some fundamentals. Finally , hospital preparedness can be increased more rapidly if standardized but scalable national resources foe staff training , building design ,and facilities operations are developed and widely disseminated.
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Hospital Preparedness foe Mass Casualties authors
R.Zaboli
Membership of faculty of hygenice, bagiyatallah (a.s) university of medical science