Major Medical Facilities
The Event Medicine Company can provide a major Field Medical Facility scaled to handle 200-400 patients. The Field Medical Facility can be established in many sites and can be split into 3 smaller units for use in multiple locations
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- Temporary structures
- Marquees or tents
- Schools
- Church halls
- Aircraft hangars
If fully deployed the Field Medical Facility consists of the following appropriately staffed medical capabilities:
Medical Command Team with proven capability of working with NHS, Military or private assets
Triage and reception facility with decontamination capability
12 resuscitation and assessment teams with equipment to manage 5 priority 1 patients before resupply
Field intensive care unit with 5 beds - Each bed is scaled for 2 patient occupancy with 2 ventilators, 2 monitors and 4 syringe pumps
Primary care/ General Practitioner/ priority 3 casualty assessment area
50 bed holding capability
Evacuation control team
Body holding area
Potential uses for the Field Medical Facility include:
Mass gathering crowd management
Second wave support to the Emergency Services at a major incident
Support to Local Authorities in large scale evacuation of communities
Reception of casualties in the UK from incidents abroad
Vaccination centres and facilities in remote locations in pandemic scenarios