Emergency department preparedness and hospital disaster planning: lessons from disasters
It is crucial to build hospitals and emergency departments that can withstand disasters and adhere to strict seismic codes and standards. Hospitals must adopt functional, context-specific disaster plans that recognize healthcare workers as disaster victims, ensure basic needs and family support, and embed role-based drills into routine practice to ensure staff understand their roles in the HAPs.
Authors
- Mehmet Murat Oktay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3487-5417)
- Kazım Ersin Altınsoy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-7645)
- İlker Akbaş (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6676-6517)
- Gül Özlem Yıldırım
- Erdal Yavuz
- Bektaş Sarı
Institutions
- University of Turku (FI)
- Ege University (TR)
- Gaziantep Children's Hospital (TR)
- Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (TR)
- Gaziantep University (TR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Emergency Medicine
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-026-01514-x
- Primary Topic
- Disaster Response and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00