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Emergency Department Ceiling Collapse: Response to an Internal Emergency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2019
Abstract
Hospital disaster resilience is often conceived as the ability to respond to external disasters. However, internal disasters appear to be more common events in hospitals than external events. This report describes the aftermath of a ceiling collapse in the emergency department of VieCuri Medical Center in Venlo, the Netherlands, on May 18, 2017. By designating the acute medical unit as a temporary emergency department, standard emergency care could be resumed within 8 hours. This unique approach might be transferrable to other hospitals in the developed world. In general, it is vital that hospital disaster plans focus on both external and internal disasters, including specific scenarios that disrupt vital hospital departments such as the emergency department. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:829–830)
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- Report from the Field
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- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 829 - 830
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- Copyright © 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.
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