Fire safe hospital wards
The fire safety strategy of hospitals does not take into account the actual evacuation times of different types of hospital patients. Designs of hospital wards with bedridden patients are focussed on maximum fire compartmentation. This paper describes a more integrated approach for designing or adjusting hospital wards, where different parameters can be chosen and compared. The present study focuses on the evacuation process, and was conducted into the actual evacuating time of a hospital patient, including the disconnecting time of different types of hospital patients. With the derived data evacuation times of different hospital wards can be calculated.
