Study on fire hazard characteristics and evacuation of hospital ward buildings / 中华医院管理杂志

By means of literature review, this paper summarized fire hazard features of hospital ward buildings. Case study plus overseas literature enabled the authors to come to recommendations based on personnel layout and evacuation speed in hospital ward buildings. Then Pathfinder was used to simulate personnel evacuation in a hospital ward building, and to calculate the safe evacuation time needed in such conditions as normal state, blocked or locked safe exits. These calculations help present suggestions on fire safety management.