Indifference, Apathy, and Preparedness

Birnbaum, Marvin L.

doi:10.1017/s1049023x00024845

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“…Despite geographical, cultural and infrastructure differences, many of the successes and failures detailed by hospitals in this paper were shared. Prior research has also noted this common experience and has called for this information to be collated to direct future planning . Therefore, in Table , we provide a continued extrapolation of the ‘lessons learned’ in two previous evacuations, first published after the London hospital fires and subsequently adapted for the report of the evacuation of Cairns Base Hospital .…”

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“…Prior research has also noted this common experience and has called for this information to be collated to direct future planning. 33 Therefore, in Table 4, we provide a continued extrapolation of the 'lessons learned' in two previous evacuations, first published after the London hospital fires 8 and subsequently adapted for the report of the evacuation of Cairns Base Hospital. 5 This table provides specific areas of focus for hospitals that addresses the commonly cited challenges in evacuation.…”

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Review article: Evacuating hospitals in Australia: What lessons can we learn from the world literature?

Rojek

Little

2013

Emerg Medicine Australasia

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The creation of hospitals safe from disaster is an area of increasing public policy. The vulnerability of hospitals to damage and destruction during an event has profound implications for the health of a community. Although hospital evacuations do occur in Australia, their prevalence is unknown and what leads to a successful evacuation is poorly understood. This article reviewed the worldwide hospital evacuation literature to determine the prevalence of hospital evacuations and common precipitants for evacuation. Factors leading to safe evacuation and areas of ongoing challenge were identified. The findings highlight the need for more structured and detailed reporting of hospital responses to disaster. A number of lessons can be learned from hospitals that have experienced evacuation. Most critically, all hospitals must have a practised, detailed hospital evacuation plan existing before an impending threat. There are also areas for improvement in the areas of assessing the risk to the facility, communications, leadership, logistics, staffing and planning. These lessons should be included into comprehensive, detailed evacuation plans for all Australian hospitals, supported by a national framework that standardises planning and response.

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Review article: Evacuating hospitals in Australia: What lessons can we learn from the world literature?

Rojek

Little

2013

Emerg Medicine Australasia

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“…2,9 The results of surprisingly few exercises examining the response of the health system to incidents involving significant numbers of casualties have been published in the medical literature. 10 Even among these, many have not directly involved the hospital system, or have used table-top scenarios, or relatively small numbers of patients per hospital. In the present paper, we outline the background to, and methodology of, the largest hospital-based field exercise involving contaminated patients that has been conducted in Australia.…”

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Truth hurts – hard lessons from Australia's largest mass casualty exercise with contaminated patients

Edwards

Caldicott

Eliseo

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Emerg Medicine Australasia

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In response to the increasing threat of a mass casualty incident involving chemical, biological or radiological agents, and concern over the preparedness of our hospital system to cope with patients from such an incident, we conducted the largest hospital-based field exercise involving contaminated patients that has been held in Australia. In the present paper, we outline the background to, and methodology of, Exercise Supreme Truth, and the efforts made to increase its realism. We focus our discussion on three issues highlighted by the exercise, which we believe have enormous implications for the development of hospital chemical, biological or radiological plans and the likelihood of their success--hospital security, crowd control and decontamination.

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Indifference, Apathy, and Preparedness

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Review article: Evacuating hospitals in Australia: What lessons can we learn from the world literature?

Review article: Evacuating hospitals in Australia: What lessons can we learn from the world literature?

Truth hurts – hard lessons from Australia's largest mass casualty exercise with contaminated patients

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