Navarro MVR, Curbelo HLS, Alomá DD, Bravo AIY

Language: Spanish
References: 6
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ABSTRACT

Background: The preparation of engineering systems in a health facility is essential for the behavior to be followed when facing a disaster. Objectives: To redesign the response plan for hospital engineering when facing a disaster. Methods: A research was conducted at the General Hospital of Cienfuegos in the second half of 2011. From this research, the plan to respond disaster situations in engineering was redesigned through function cards for nine major engineering systems defined as the main ones. A literature review was conducted as well as interviews to key informants and focus group technique. In order to implement the new plan, the entire staff was trained. The function cards, printed on signalization paper, were placed in specific working settings. Results: There were defined as major engineering systems: electrical, water supply, steam, medical gases, climate, medical imaging, building maintenance, non medical equipment and weak currents networks. For each manager and operator main actions were defined. The engineers (8) and technicians (14) approached the redesign of the plan with responses from good to excellent for: usefulness (100%), applicability (90.1%), system’s structure (86.4%), consistency (90.1%) and better response (100%). Conclusions: Actions designed for major engineering systems through function cards are useful, feasible, facilitate the implementation of the strategy designed for the institution's response to disasters and they contribute to the improvement of the plan to reduce these phenomena.

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