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5902017 ‘Surgical Field Hospital | Red Cross Finnish Red Cross Youre hare: oma Abstine Recs Di wasnt te) Tose etn Surgeal Ft Hest Surgical Field Hospital ‘The surgical field hospital has the capacity to serve a population of 200,000 to 300,000. It has the ability to treat 50 to 100 patients per day, Surgeons can perform anything up to 20 operations per day. Standard ward capacity of the hospital is 80 beds. Deployment layout for surgical field hospital 1.Gate 2. Water point 3.Latrine 4, Ward unit 5, Launary 6. Showers 7. Kitchen a xray 8. Morgue 10, Medical warehouse 11. Laboratory 12. Intensive care unit 13, Operation theatre 14, Sterization 15, Dispensary 416. Administration, incl. communication and data rate 17. Workshop, general stockroom and technical depot 418. Communication antenna 19, Dressing unit 20, Outpatient unit 21. Water storage 22. Water purification 23. Generators 24, Waiting area and patient registry 25. 4x4 pickup 26. 4x4 allterrain vehicle 27. Personnel accommodation area 28. Sauna 2. Dining area, relaxation area Operation theatre tent 1. Patient preparation 2. Oxygen concentrator 3. Flu, V-equipment, tubes, syringes, needle etc htpevtwww.rederos flaboutree-croes/our-work-thraughaxt-worlalsurgial-fld-hosptal 18 5902017 ‘Surgical Field Hospital | Red Cross 4, Anaesthesia machine 5. Electric suction machine 6. Hand washing 7 Operating table 8. Surgical clothes 9, Instrument table 410. Mayo table 11. Instuments 412. iathermy device with which Le. leaking blood vessels are sealed 18, Operation theatre ight with battery 14, Celing light fixture ‘A uly equipped operation theatre is part of the basic layout ofboth the general field ‘hospital and the surgical leld hospital. The menu of what can be done with this unt Includes trauma surgery treatment of large wounds, fracture repair, performing “amputations etc. Basically, the unt is equipped to cay out surgical operations from hhead to toe, including abdominal surgery. When the units located ito a confict ‘area, war surgery usualy takes precedence: trauma caused by small arms fre, artilery ammunition fragments, mine explosions or rauma axginating from the use of improvised explosive devices, ‘The surgical field hospital has the capacity to serve a population of 200,000 to 300,000, Ithas the ability to treat 80 to 100 patients per day. Surgeons can perform ‘anything up to 20 operations per day. Standard ward capacity of the hospital is 80, beds. Its basic concept is geared towards treating war wounded. Itcan, however, be ‘deployed ilarge scale surgical capaciy is required to treat tne wounds of viens ‘ofa dssaster, typically in connection with a massive earthquake, especialy ifthe ‘quake hits a densely populated area Staffing of surgical field hospital + 1am Leader +1 Maat coornatar + 2ueons +t Anaesthesiopst +16 ynaecaanist +1 Pawdattian +1 enral rector + 8 Nurs (spi es: OT, anaesthesia, pais, mdf, ward nurses) +1 Phamacist + 1 Laboratory technician +1 Xray techrictan +1 Aémiistrationdelgate +1 Infomation delegate +5 Technical dlogates (speciltos: water and santation 1, electri pus generate) + Inaction, up to 180 local stat htpevtwww.rederos flaboutree-croes/our-work-thraughaxt-worlalsurgial-fld-hosptal 28 902017 ‘Surgical Field Hospital | Red Cross Surgical eld hospital weighs app. 70,000 kilos and requires the transport capacity (of 5 semisailer trucks. Two regular freight planes are needed to dispatch the hospital tots locaton by ae feght. Setting up a surgical eld hosptal requires a minimum of 3.000 to 5.000 square metres of suitable land, Deployments of Finnish Red Cross surgical field hospital (by 1.6.2011): 2009 1 Peshawar, Pakistan, for JORC use, in connection wth increase in demand for war Surgery inthe area 2010 0 Hatin connection with January 12h 2010 cathquako, together wth the German Red Cross 2010 to Temuco, Chil in connection with February 27 2010 earthquake, together wth the Neweglan Red Cross, operated by Chilean medical stat eg) (© Finnish Red Coss 2017 | egal noes | Colac ences POL 2016-4708 A ALR ZO"6I2AS htpevtwww.rederos flaboutree-croes/our-work-thraughaxt-worlalsurgial-fld-hosptal ae

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