3.7 Predefined Patient Transportation Routes A colored guiding system with respective floor marking can be useful and help to avoid chaos. 3.8 Medical Measures Including Sorting All medical measures have to start at the emergency entrance. Sorting has priority in order to ensure decisive instructions. Physicians at the entrance play a key-role and have to be highly trained. Enhanced admission of patients require an enlargement of suitable spots, if necessary even by changing their function.
All needs have to be exactly determined and realized on a basis of the existing possibilities.
3.10 Communication Communication is one of the main problems in case of major accidents and disasters. Information has to be reduced to the most important facts. Wire and radio contacts as well as messengers have to be integrated into the communication concept. It also has to be taken into account that any systems may fail. Cellular phones often fail in such situations due to overcharge.