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Table 5 Checklist results of hospital disaster response according to the 4Ss

From: Lessons learned from reviewing a hospital’s disaster response to the hydrofluoric acid leak in Gumi city in 2012

Category

Question

Yes or No

Space

Was there any expansion of ED space to accommodate additional patients inside the ED?

aNo

Was there any expansion of ED space to accommodate additional patients outside the ED?

aNo

Were any disaster reserve beds secured in the hospital?

aNo

Staff

Was there any reinforcement of hospital disaster response personnel (e.g., doctors or nurses), administration personnel, or security personnel?

aNo

Were there any duty time adjustments or duty relocation of ED working personnel?

aNo

Supplies

Was there any reinforcement of medicines including antidote (e.g., calcium gluconate)?

aNo

Was there any personal protective equipment provided for hospital disaster response personnel to respond to the CBRNE disaster?

aNo

Were there any reinforcement of logistics other than those mentioned above for the hospital’s disaster response?

aNo

System

Were any hospital disaster command systems in operation?

aNo

Was there any process to invoke surge support?

aNo

Did the administration department implement disaster-related measures to accept a larger number of patients than usual?

aNo

Was disaster triage (e.g., START or SALT in preparation for multiple casualty accidents or disasters) implemented in addition to the usual ED patient triage?

aNo

Was any decontamination zone established in the hospital?

aNo

Did the hospital perform decontamination of the patients?

aNo

Were any specialized diagnostic testing measures implemented to address the rapidly surging ED patient testing needs?

aNo

Was there any unification and management of the entrances and exits of hospitals that should be performed in disaster situations?

aNo

  1. CBRNE Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives, ED Emergency department
  2. aWe checked and confirmed these results by medical chart review and by interview with ED specialist staff physician who was on duty during the study period. We developed these checklist questions by reviewing literature concerning the hospital’s disaster response [1,2,3, 5,6,7,8,9,10,11, 15, 16]