Figuring out which patients can save themselves
Hospital Safety Connection, August 19, 2003
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Ambulatory health facilities provide outpatient medical treatment or anesthesia that simultaneously renders four or more patients incapable of evacuating themselves during a fire without staff help-so says the Life Safety Code and the Statement of Conditions.
Not so fast, though. What exactly does the word "incapable" mean?
Certainly if patients can get up and walk out on their own at the sound of an alarm, they are capable of saving themselves, says A. Richard Fasano. But "if they require the assistance of staff for evacuation, they are considered incapacitated," adds Fasano, manager of the Western office for Russell Phillips & Associates in Elk Grove, CA.
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