جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « field hospital » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

The Arbaeen foot-pilgrimage in the Holy City of Karbala is one of the world's most significant religious events, attracting millions of pilgrims yearly. Health and hygienic issues in this gathering have always been a cause of concern for the communities involved.

The study aimed to examine the challenges Ehsan Field Hospital faced in the Arbaeen of 2022 and its approach to providing services to referring pilgrims.

The present study was a cross-sectional study with a 10-day interval conducted on 19,800 patients referred to Ehsan Field Hospital between the 9th and 19th of September, 2022. The research tool was a two-part checklist; the first part included the patients’ demographic information, and the second part included information about the disease (e.g., laboratory information, the disease symptoms, and the disease diagnosis). The SPSS software (version 26) was used for data analysis. Moreover, a brief qualitative investigation based on the experiences of the personnel working on-site was conducted to assess the challenges and their solutions in this foot-pilgrimage.

A total of 13,860 (70%) patients were male, 5,940 (30%) were female, and the majority of them were between the ages of 25-55 (63.8%). Most hospitalizations (58.5%) were related to problems caused by gastroenteritis.

Considering the importance of people's health and hygiene in gatherings similar to Arbaeen, the necessity of building and operating field hospitals and mobile treatment camps for serving people is crucial, starting a few days before and continuing after the gathering. Furthermore, universities of medical sciences can provide a platform to facilitate and carry out valid research projects and studies to clarify the health and treatment problems dealt with during the Arbaeen foot-pilgrimage. Furthermore, they can provide practical and efficient solutions to improve the level of health and hygiene.

This article reports the measures related to the creation and establishment of a military field hospital by police medical workers in the procession of Arba’in as part of preventive preparation and national support in the field of health and treatment. After the multi-faceted investigations by the health deputy of the police, the University of Ilam province, Iran, and the governorate, considered to install four inflatable tents for the establishment of treatment areas in a land of 2 800 square meters in a part of the Arba’in walking path between the Mehran city and the border terminal with Iraq. The parking lot for the vehicles carrying troops, medical equipment, and ambulances was in the hospital area. The 40-bed military field hospital or compliance plan included the command room, men’s and women’s departments with two operation room beds, intensive care units, and support units, such as a pharmacy, drug storage, and medical equipment. Healthcare services were provided to more than two thousand five hundred pilgrims over 20 days. Telemedicine was connected with hospitals around the clock.

In the summer of two years ago in 2021, the prevalence of COVID-19 increased sharply in one of the less privileged provinces. As a result, the number of beds and treatment departments in hospitals, and more importantly, the number of medical specialists in that province, did not meet the existing needs. For this reason, the military healthcare workers decided to come to the aid of that province, considering the organizational mission of the police force. According to the memorandum, the Police Organization, the Governor, and the University of Medical Sciences from that province collaborated to establish a 64-bed field hospital for patients with COVID-19, with two separate wards for male and female patients. The COVID-19 Police Field Hospital provided care for more than a thousand patients over 8 weeks from July 12 to August 31, 2021. In this report, we describe our implementation strategy, including organizational structure, acceptance criteria, and clinical services. Additionally, dynamic workflows require clear lines of relationship, clinical operations expertise, and engaged, interested, and people-friendly healthcare workers.

 The purpose of this study was to assess the presence of Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) members at the site of disasters and related factors.

 This quasi-experimental study was conducted on all 178 DMAT members in Iran in 2020. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, which consisted of 20 questions. On a pre-appointed time, DMAT members were called for disaster by receiving a text message and asked to come to a pre-appointed place. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics, included chi-square test. 

 Only 29% of the members responded to the call and showed up at the place. There were significant relationships between being a clinical member, membership in similar organizations, experience of work in disasters, worries about the health of the child, responsibility for taking care of an old family member, believing the disaster site’s safety and security and the availability of personal protective equipment in the disaster site with the status of response to disaster call.

 Overall, the response rate to call was very low, which indicates the need to take measures to improve it. Continuing training and providing safety at disaster areas and support for family members will increase the presence at work in disasters.

Establishing field hospitals is a critical task for governments to complete following disasters, with the first step being to identify suitable locations. Although field hospitals are similar to permanent hospitals and temporary shelters, no research in English has been conducted to extract the location selection criteria for field hospitals from those for hospitals and temporary shelters.

A meta-synthetic approach was used to review all related qualitative, quantitative, and mixed studies published in English between January 2010 and June 2020 to identify new field hospital site selection criteria distinct from those used to select a permanent hospital and temporary sheltering sites.

From 4317 screened records, 24 articles were eventually identified as eligible studies, through which 151 open codes, 21 axial codes, and nine themes were identified. The top three axes included proximity to main roads, proximity/distance to permanent hospitals, and proximity/distance to other medical centers.

By considering a field hospital as a facility with certain characteristics similar to permanent hospitals and temporary shelters, it is possible to identify specific new criteria and sub-criteria by extracting items common to permanent hospitals and temporary shelter site selection studies.

 Following an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale took place in the west of Iran, on November 12th, 2017, numerous state and community response teams were dispatched for a variety of purposes.

 This study aimed to describe the experiences of the medical team dispatched from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in an emergency field hospital in the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab following the Kermanshah earthquake.

 In this cross-sectional study, the data collected by SUMS’s team were used. In this regard, the condition of the only local hospital in Sarpol-e-Zahab after the earthquake, the actions taken by SUMS’s team, the existing problems, as well as characteristics of the visited patients, were described. Finally, the satisfaction of the medical staff at the hospital under the study with the performance of the SUMS’s team was analyzed.

 Following the earthquake, the only hospital in Sarpol-e-Zahab became semi-open. An emergency field hospital was partially established in the hospital’s parking lot. The SUMS’s team changed the arrangement of the field hospital, and during eight days, visited more than 9,000 patients. The most frequent chief complaints of patients were signs of the flu and respiratory infections, various types of trauma, and gastrointestinal problems.

 Our results indicated that the data were not adequate to cover all the aspects involved. This shows the necessity of developing a registry system for better management of healthcare at times of the crisis.