Approach to assessing the preparedness of hospitals to power outages

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12110%2F17%3A43895493" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12110/17:43895493 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989100:27200/17:10235970
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tvsbses-2017-0005" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tvsbses-2017-0005</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tvsbses-2017-0005" target="_blank" >10.1515/tvsbses-2017-0005</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Approach to assessing the preparedness of hospitals to power outages
Original language description
Within the secondary impacts of electricity blackouts, it is necessary to pay attention to facilities providing medical care for the population, namely the hospitals. Hospitals represent a key position in the provision of health care also in times of crisis. These facilities must provide constant care; it is therefore essential that the preparedness of such facilities is kept at a high level. The basic aim of this article is to analyse the preparedness of hospitals to power outages (power failures, blackouts) within a pilot study. On that basis, a SWOT analysis is used to determine strengths and weaknesses of the system of preparedness of hospitals to power outages and solutions for better security of hospitals are defined. The sample investigated consists of four hospitals founded by the Regional Authority (hospitals Nos. 1-4) and one hospital founded by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (hospital No. 5). The results of the study shows that most weaknesses of the preparedness of hospitals are represented by inadequately addressed reserves of fuel for the main backup power supply, poor knowledge of employees who are insufficiently retrained, and old backup power supplies (even 35 years in some cases).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/VI20152019049" target="_blank" >VI20152019049: RESILIENCE 2015: Dynamic Resilience Evaluation of Interrelated Critical Infrastructure Subsystems</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Series
ISSN
1805-3238
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
XII
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
30-40
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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