What should you do when a continuous fire alarm is sounded in hospital?

A continuous two tone alarm indicates the need to act immediately. The clinical lead will direct the ongoing care of patients and their evacuation. Patients should be moved away from fire and smoke, initially through at least one fire door into another compartment or outside.

What happens if there’s a fire in the middle of a surgery?

Unfortunately, many surgical fires occur during surgery performed on the head, neck, and chest, so the flames are located in the body’s most delicate area. In mere seconds, an open flame can blind, scar, or even critically injure a patient.

What happens if a fire alarm goes off?

When the fire alarm goes off, a signal is sent to a monitoring station, which forwards the message to the fire department. In mere seconds, emergency responders are on their way to your business.

How common are surgical fires?

Surgical fires are fires that occur in, on, or around a patient undergoing a medical or surgical procedure. Surgical fires are rare but serious events. The ECRI Institute estimates that approximately 550 to 600 surgical fires occur each year.

What is a fire emergency?

Fire emergency means a fire or the potential for a fire that in the opinion of the Fire Chief or Incident Commander (IC) may escalate beyond the ability of the local fire service resources to safely control and thereby endangering lives, property, buildings or the environment.

What would happen if fuels were removed?

Removing Fuel The fire continues to burn until the fuel that is still available is consumed. Removal of fuel in the path of the fire prevents the fire from spreading past the fireline.

What is a surgical fire?

Why did the heart catch on fire Greys anatomy?

She had a heart attack and had to be stabilized before her surgery. They took her into surgery and started operating. During her surgery, her chest cavity caught on fire.