The environment and layout of the emergency department

(I) Regional division

1. The emergency department should be set up as an independent clinic area

(1) The emergency department should be a self-contained area, with separate entrances and exits, and have a convenient connection with medical technology.

(2) In addition to setting up the emergency foyer, the emergency department should be set up as an independent fixed clinic area, and can be opened 24 hours a day to facilitate the use and management of the night.

(3) Infusion rooms should separate adults from children and chairs from beds.

(4) The observation room is a separate unit, easy to use and manage, providing conditions for visitation and further treatment and care.

2. Partitioning within the emergency department

The interior of the emergency department can be divided into medical and support areas according to function, and should be reasonably laid out to shorten the radius of emergency rescue and examination as much as possible.

1) Medical area. Including triage, consultation room, treatment room, disposal room, rescue room, infusion room and observation room, with conditions can be set up emergency operating room and emergency monitoring room;

(2) support area. Including registration, various types of auxiliary examination departments, pharmacy, charging and security departments.

(2) the main functional rooms

should include hospital registration room, laboratory, pharmacy, charging room, emergency diagnostic room, resuscitation room, gastric lavage room, debridement room (or operating room), functional examination room, treatment room, injection room, observation room, infusion room, children's infusion room, warehouse, office, duty room, lounge, locker room, dirty washroom, sanitary ware room, etc..

Resuscitation room according to the need to set up the appropriate number of resuscitation beds, the net use of each bed area of not less than 12 square meters, generally 14-16 square meters per bed is appropriate. Cleansing room should be set up in accordance with the requirements of the operating room buffer and restroom.

(C) plan layout

The layout of the emergency department commonly used centralized unit layout, multi-level partition layout, functional partition layout.