Biomedical Engineering Reference
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2. Total number of operating beds
current avail-
able to accept patients
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Pediatricians
•
Trauma Surgeons
Registered Nurses
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Emergency
•
Critical Care
•
Operating Room
•
Pediatrics
Other Personnel
•
in the following
units:
•
general medical (adult)
•
general surgical (adult)
•
general medical (pediatric)
•
general surgical (pediatric)
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obstetrics
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cardiac intensive care
•
neonatal intensive care
•
pediatric intensive care
•
burn
•
psychiatric
•
subacute care
•
skilled care beds
•
operating suites
3. The number of items
currently available for
loan or donation
to another hospital:
•
respirators
•
IV infusion pumps
•
dialysis machines
•
hazmat decontamination equipment
•
MRI
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CT scanner
•
hyperbaric chamber
•
ventilators
•
external pacemakers
•
atropine
•
kefzol
4. The following number of personnel
currently
available for loan
to another hospital:
Physicians
•
Maintenance Workers
Mental Health Workers
•
Respiratory Therapists
•
•
Plant Engineers
•
Security Workers
•
Social Workers
•
Others as indicated
E. Partner Hospital Concept (Optional)
Each “paired” hospital should standardize a set
of contacts to facilitate communications during a
disaster.
The procedural steps in the event of a disaster
are as follows:
1. Determine the total number of patients the
emergency department and hospital can accept,
and if possible, the total number of patients
with major and minor injuries.
2. Impacted hospital contacts partner hospital
to determine availability of beds, equipment,
supplies, and personnel. (Contacts secondary
partner hospital if primary hospital is unable
to meet needs.)
3. Impacted hospital contacts the clearinghouse
and notifies the center of its needs, how they
are being met, and any unmet needs.
4. At the request of the impacted hospital,
the clearinghouse will contact other hospi-
tals to alert them to the situation and to
begin an inventory for any possible or actual
unmet needs.
Anesthesiologists
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Emergency Medicine
•
General Surgeon
•
OB-GYN
