Emergency Department HazMat Decontamination Contingency Plan

The five W's of hazmat decontamination.

While most of the focus is currently on communities and the health care service sector to have plans and supplies in place for mass victim decontamination, it is just as important for facilities to have proper decontamination (or "decon") procedures in place for emergencies that could occur at their facilities. Written decontamination procedures are required under the Occupational Safety and He...

Contingency Selection in Plan

A key question in conditional planning is: how many, and which of the possible execution failures should be planned for? One cannot , in general, plan for all the failures that can be anticipated: there are simply too many. But neither can one ignore all the possible failures, or one will fail to produce suuciently exible plans. We describe a planning system that attempts to identify the contin...

Contingency Selection in Plan Generation

A key question in conditional planning is: how many, and which of the possible execution failures should be planned for? One cannot, in general, plan for all the possible failures because the search space is too large. One cannot ignore all the possible failures, or one will fail to produce sufficiently flexible plans. In this paper, we describe an approach to conditional planning that attempts...

Iranian emergency department overcrowding

Today, overcrowding in emergencies has turned out to be one of the biggest problems in health systems around the world. In this case, a short and an accessible solution could not be reached. In fact, several basic reasons play a role in such a problem, and eliminating each of them would require long-term planning. This issue not only has a negative effect on the quality of services presented to...

Planning for hospital emergency mass-casualty decontamination by the US Department of Veterans Affairs.