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"Black Alert" Official Definition and Tracking Method for Severe Wave
"Black Alert" Official Definition and Tracking Method for Severe Wave
Thank you for specifying the details and escalation procedure for "Black Alert", Vibrant62.
Now we're getting to the brass tacks.
And when those tacks are removed, nothing is left to hold the covers on the furniture.
In a similar fashion, when operating theatres and recovery rooms are re-tasked entirely to the Critical Care purpose, the staff strain and the workflow may become modified to an ongoing sub-optimal level. Equipment shortages and material logistics failures become more common in both the Critical Care arena and the normal patient flow.
Infection control protocols, difficult to implement successfully under normal patient loads, become more complex and may be reduced in efficacy. Even the few simple patient care tasks that remain during a developing crisis become complicated to execute.
Do we have access to the official guidebook noting the "Red" and "Black" alert status levels and the step-by-step escalation procedures to those levels? If so, perhaps a thread may be started that precisely defines the categories and tracks the hospitals entering the alert levels. Health Emergency or some other campaign group may be able to provide ongoing updates to the exact hospitals that have declared status changes upwardly and downwardly?
If a domain were enlisted like BlackAlert.org (available for ~USD10 or less) with simple forum / polling software scripts, then hospital staff might be able to quickly signin and click a few buttons from a checklist on the crises in their units. Secondarily, website domain could be established and then simply redirected to an existing forum concerned with these types of issues. Organising this critical data during a crisis is entirely plausible.
Taking 90 seconds a few times a day to update the public and to feed the models of epidemiologists with detailed flow data is certainly an avid investment? This type of balanced social messaging response allows the public to know hospitals that are over-capacity and also allows adminstrators / staff to efficiently redirect patient load, conduct lifesaving triage and reduce pressure on overtaxed frontline workers.
If these data sharing methods have already been implemented by the NHS, then we all will benefit by locating the externalisation of such important information about the public health care entities. Relying on verbal comments from harried doctors rushing to the next breathless patient while cross-referencing heavily-diluted press releases from officials leaves much to be desired when attempting to produce accurate reports of the current situation.
"Black Alert" Official Definition and Tracking Method for Severe Wave
Thank you for specifying the details and escalation procedure for "Black Alert", Vibrant62.
Now we're getting to the brass tacks.
And when those tacks are removed, nothing is left to hold the covers on the furniture.
In a similar fashion, when operating theatres and recovery rooms are re-tasked entirely to the Critical Care purpose, the staff strain and the workflow may become modified to an ongoing sub-optimal level. Equipment shortages and material logistics failures become more common in both the Critical Care arena and the normal patient flow.
Infection control protocols, difficult to implement successfully under normal patient loads, become more complex and may be reduced in efficacy. Even the few simple patient care tasks that remain during a developing crisis become complicated to execute.
Do we have access to the official guidebook noting the "Red" and "Black" alert status levels and the step-by-step escalation procedures to those levels? If so, perhaps a thread may be started that precisely defines the categories and tracks the hospitals entering the alert levels. Health Emergency or some other campaign group may be able to provide ongoing updates to the exact hospitals that have declared status changes upwardly and downwardly?
If a domain were enlisted like BlackAlert.org (available for ~USD10 or less) with simple forum / polling software scripts, then hospital staff might be able to quickly signin and click a few buttons from a checklist on the crises in their units. Secondarily, website domain could be established and then simply redirected to an existing forum concerned with these types of issues. Organising this critical data during a crisis is entirely plausible.
Taking 90 seconds a few times a day to update the public and to feed the models of epidemiologists with detailed flow data is certainly an avid investment? This type of balanced social messaging response allows the public to know hospitals that are over-capacity and also allows adminstrators / staff to efficiently redirect patient load, conduct lifesaving triage and reduce pressure on overtaxed frontline workers.
If these data sharing methods have already been implemented by the NHS, then we all will benefit by locating the externalisation of such important information about the public health care entities. Relying on verbal comments from harried doctors rushing to the next breathless patient while cross-referencing heavily-diluted press releases from officials leaves much to be desired when attempting to produce accurate reports of the current situation.
