American hospital emergency management model / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The events of terror activities, natural disasters and infectious disease epidemics in the 21st century in the USA alert an urgent need to establish a novel hospital emergency management model. The federal government has proposed specific requirements for hospital emergency management in terms of organization, commanding and coordinating, emergency preparedness, training and rehearsal, resource management, communication and information transmission, Most of the American hospitals have adopted the model of hospital emergency management planning and preparedness, including mainly, assigning specialized personnel to hospital emergency management; establishment of an emergency management committee; formulation of an overall preparedness protocol for emergent events; performing fragility analysis; strengthening the coordination with extramural organizations and seeking expertise support; carrying out emergency preparedness training and rehearsal; and regular review and evaluation of the management. The commanding system set up especially to deal with various hospital emergent events is universally applied in American hospitals.