Hospital ship can be understood as "mobile hospital at sea", the reason why the sea, mainly from the sea to receive this aspect of the "injured" and "sick" two categories of personnel. According to the form of points, these two types of personnel from the war (action) and non-war (state), war refers to the sea war, non-war refers to accidents, natural disasters and other states. As a hospital ship, first of all, to meet the needs of war at sea casualty treatment, followed by the consideration of non-war when the handling of maritime emergencies and international rescue.
In addition, the ship's serious injury ward accounted for the majority of the ship, because the hospital ship can be sent to the sick and wounded, most of the injuries and illnesses are more serious, the serious injury ward conditions are relatively better equipped. Internal medicine is also available, but not as prominent as the status of surgery, maternity and pediatrics are also available, but not as a priority to consider. Any structure on a hospital ship is set up according to its mission. For example, the casualties received by a hospital ship are not one by one, but a large number of them. Therefore, once you enter a hospital ship, you will see a "classified casualty inspection area", after a large number of casualties arrive, which ones will be operated first and which ones will be treated with anti-shock therapy, so that the casualties and patients can receive classified treatment in the fastest possible way through classification. The first thing you need to do is to get the patients to be treated in the fastest way possible. On the surface, it is not much different from the land hospital, but in essence, it is quite different from the land hospital. Moreover, there are some departments in the sea hospital that are not available on land. For example, some of the wounded at sea may have been soaked in seawater. Wounds after seawater immersion, the mechanism of injury, treatment principles are different, to deal with seawater immersion of the department we also have, supporting each other, the dressing temperature device, the corresponding dressings, which is not on land, and do not need to have. Therefore, at least in terms of departmental allocation, the hospital ship has its own obvious characteristics. From the medical equipment, first of all, the department focus is not the same, then the matching medical equipment is not the same, on the other hand, the medical equipment to withstand the test of the sea environment, the sea environment, including, physically, there is rocking, vibration, electromagnetic radiation, humidity, etc.; from the chemical point of view, there is salt at sea, easy to corrode. In order to resist rocking, radiation, we have to take some special measures, for example, in order to resist rocking, all the facilities on board are fixed, even if it is a trolley.
The power supply system on board is different from that on land, both in terms of voltage and interface. Most of the medical equipment is electromagnetic, but its internal movement is different from that of any land-based hospital, such as the CT equipment that was introduced at the beginning, which was fine for dockside use, but when it was rocked on a voyage, it didn't work, so the system was re-replaced.
The entire design of the Peace Ark hospital ship is based on the mission and is not constrained by the original design. For example, the means of transfer, the Peace Ark hospital ship has a lot of good ideas and technology, there are a variety of means such as special baskets, and the ship docked after the help of the direct suspension and so on processes are more convenient. Maritime hospital ship, not with the car directly to the sick and wounded into the hospital, through some special means of transportation will be the sick and wounded transfer to the ship, so the means of transfer for the hospital ship is very important, the sick and wounded can not come on, the function of even better will be of no use;
Peace Ark hospital ship layout is more reasonable than the retrofitted hospital ship, because of retrofitting to be subjected to the limitations of the original structure of the hull, and the peace ark hospital ship is based on the overall mission of the regional division of the area. Hospital ship is based on the overall mission to divide the area, in the whole layout of the whole process is reasonable;
Because the layout is reasonable and systematic, the whole workflow of the effect and efficiency is improved, from the effect of the injured and sick treatment to minimize the link, improve efficiency, if some of the process is not reasonable, leading to infections and so on, but it will aggravate the condition.