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PubMed1981

Revising the rural hospital disaster plan: a role for the EMS system in managing the multiple casualty incident.

Much of the effort in disaster planning has been directed toward large-scale, war-related, or major natural disasters. We helped test a rural community's disaster plan in a simulated airport accident, and concluded that this plan was not the most effective for providing the triage and stabilization in the field that are essential to the management of this type of accident. This communication argues for the development of an alternative model of response involving the "escalation" of the everyday emergency medical services system. We believe this will provide more rapid and effective allocation of the rural community's limited medical resources in the management of the multiple casualty incident.

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PubMed1978

Updating disaster plans: a tale of three hospitals.

Three hospitals that were struck by disaster in 1977 have undertaken major revision of their disaster plans as a result of unexpected problems that occurred during the crises. Lee Hospital, Johnstown, PA, is installing a tough "floodproofing" system; Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, and Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City, are revamping their emergency electrical systems.

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PubMed1996

Disaster plan education: how we made and tested a video.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the making and testing of a 40 minute video to educate staff about a hospitals disaster plan. METHODS: A disaster scene was created and 30 staff volunteers took part in the simulation of a major accident. The simulation was used to explain and demonstrate disaster triage. A multiple choice questionnaire was used to compare information recall in a group who had seen the video and a group who had read the written plan. RESULTS: Large numbers of hospital staff voluntarily watched the video. The video group scored significantly higher than the reading group (P < 0.01), with mean scores of 72% and 45% respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Videos have an impact lacking in written disaster plans and improve recall of emergency procedures.

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PubMed2001

New standards issued for disaster planning.

New accreditation standards require you to work with community agencies as part of preparation for disasters. Invite community first responders to critique your disaster drills. Offer to use your ED as a training site for other agencies. Include jobs for volunteers in your disaster plan.

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PubMed1994

[Form and readability of disaster plans].

We have evaluated the disaster contingency plans for 62 out of 69 Norwegian hospitals with surgical, acute emergency functions. Page volume varied from 2-115, mean 33 pages. Only nine hospitals had pocket size printed documents (A5). At the rest of the hospitals the plans had an A4-format and consisted of photocopied pages. Illustrations were few and of low quality. Too much text contained general information with no practical relevant instruction. Readability varied for different groups of health workers. Doctors received the best instructions for their tasks. Hospitals should seek professional assistance to edit, illustrate and produce the plans, and a certain degree of standardization of the plans should be aimed at. National health authorities should encourage the hospitals in this work.

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PubMed2004

[Terrorists' target World Cup 2006: disaster medicine on the sidelines?! Aspects of hospital disaster planning].

Focussing on possible mass casualty situations during events such as the soccer world championship in 2006, the Professional Board of Surgeons in Germany and the German Society for Surgery canvassed surgeons-in-chief in the last quarter of 2003 concerning disaster plans for hospitals. The rate of returned questionnaires amounted to 26% covering the following areas of interest: plans-ready to use, known by the employees as well as by the rescue coordination center, performance of exercises, and concepts on decontamination and detoxification. Based on past numbers of casualties during soccer disasters, an excursus into details also includes a description of an approach to reduce the danger of bottleneck effects at doors. A preliminary concept based on the upcoming system for funding hospitals in Germany and including new partnerships is outlined, succeeded by some hopefully helpful hints for a web-based hospital disaster plan.

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PubMed1958

Disaster planning.

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