- Author
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Archea, J.
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Margulis, S.
- Title
- Evacuation of Non-Ambulatory Patients From Hospital and Nursing Home Fires: A Framework for a Model.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBSIR 79-1906
November 1979
64 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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building codes
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elderly persons
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fire safety
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handicapped
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health care facilities
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nursing homes
- Abstract
- This report is directed toward the problem of evacuating dependent, non-ambulatory persons from fires in nursing homes and other health care facilities. It deals persons from fires in nursing homes and oither health care facilities. It deals only with those behavioral and building factors that bear on the activities that follow directly from a decision to evacuate patients from a fire zone in a nursing home or similar facility. The examination is based on the rejection of the model which is the basis for current life safety regulations beacause it assumes independent occupant mobility. This assumption does not apply to dependent, non-ambulatory persons. The major objective of the report is to identify those factors that must be considered in order to determine the ideal performance oif a hospital or nursing home evacuation system for non-ambulatory patients when all components or persons in that system act as they are designed or trained to act. These factors are presented as part of an analysis of evacuation as a five phase process: manpower supply phase, patient preparation phase, patient removal phase, rest and recovery phase, and manpower resupply phase. Research findings are reviewed and a research agenda is proposed.