Evacuation
  • Can be an Area, Building, or Site
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  • Can be slow or fast depending on the
  • situation
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  • Can also be a Staggered evacuation
  • (those most at risk first)
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  • Rendezvous points locally established
  • Follow fire procedures in first
  • instance
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  • Keep a record of patient
  • movements
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  • Remember your moving and
  • handling training
    • Full Hospital Evacuation is very complicated. Likelihood is that carrying out a full site
    evacuation will put patients at risk. Only considered in extreme circumstances.
     
    However 3 Hospitals Evacuated in 2012
    - Bellevue and NY University Tisch Hospital as a consequence of Hurricane Sandy
    and Altnagelvin Hospital (Northern Ireland) Hospital Fire