Triagle - Emergency care : XVIII - Improvised hospitals - Part II : (18th of 18 installments)

In consideration of any disaster, and particularly in consideration of a possible act of war, the problem of immediate and continuing supplies will be of major concern. With many warehouses destroyed or inaccessible, and with transportation facilities greatly reduced, planning for disaster must include plans for local or nearby depots of supply. Rather, it becomes a study in improvisation. Every hospital should consider its needs in case the usual supplies are cut off for a protracted period of time. In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a Federal program known as HRDI, or Hospital Reserve Disaster Index. The local pharmacies are able to supply not only pharmaceutical items and dressings, but also many other articles useful in emergency batteries, flashlights, transistor radios, "canned heat", paper plates and cups, picnic items, etc. Nearby private laboratories will augment the hospital laboratory, not only in routine medical work, but also in assuring a safe water supply. In the case of communities which are rural centers, extra supplies of food may be obtained from local farmers

Triagle - Emergency care : XVII - Improvised hospitals - Part I : (17th of 19 installments)

In the event of major disaster, it may become necessary to improvise hospital facilities. This may be done by activating and existing stored hospital, or by mobilizing trained personnel, requisitioning supplies, and establishing an austere hospital in a previously selected building. Such improvised hospitals may be used in a number of situations: to replace an existing hospital, damaged beyond salvage; to augment an existing hospital which has been damaged, but portions of which are still usable; to handle a portion of the patient load where existing hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties; to be set up in an area hit by disaster where no hospital exists; and to establish specialized units, such as burn wards or wards for those exposed to ionizing radiation. The providing of additional hospital facilities is a complex problem, and should be planned in advance of any disaster. It is not impossible to organize such a hospital after disaster occurs, but it becomes vastly more difficult to do so

Packaged disaster hospital. Series 1000 mod "a" : Component listing and storage data

Lists components packed in a completely functional 200-bed packaged disaster hospital (MOD A) with a 30 day emergency operational capability the items are presented by medical sections and case number sequences, including the following additional information: Case number, federal stock number, storage code, identification of items, unit of issue and price per single item, total quantity, total weight for quantity listed and total cube for quantity listed

Emergency hospital operating manual

Manual which outlines the recommended organization, operation and administration of emergency medical units in a major disaster situation. The emergency hospital is designed to supplement and expand the casualty care service normally provided by existing hospitals when the number of casualties exceeds the available treatment resources. Demonstrates the employment of these units within the framework of the provincial and zonal emergency health plan in Canada as the most efficient method for mobilization of all available health workers to support the community. Prepared to guide provincial and municipal emergency health services in the organization, administration and operation of an emergency hospital and to provide guide in the training of personnel