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ANALYSIS ON POTENTIAL ACCOMMODATING CAPACITY FOR CASUALTIES IN HOSPITALS

2011; Architectural Institute of Japan; Volume: 76; Issue: 669 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3130/aija.76.2057

1881-8161

Kana Egawa, So UCHIDA, Itsuki Noda, Ikushi Yoda, Yoshihito Horiuchi, Ken-ichi KOBAYASHI, Atsuo KAKEHI, Yasushi NAGASAWA,

Marine and Coastal Research

The study aims at finding out potential capacity for admitting casualties suffering from devastating disasters occurred in the vicinity of hospitals within a limited time frame during ordinary day to day hospital services. Three stages of analysis on admitting casualties were carried out. As the results, quite significant implications were obtained, inter alia, number of CTs / X-rays as well as the treatment space are found to be critical factors in order to complete the treatment of casualties in limited period of time.