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Inflatable Surge Shelters
Quick and easy to deploy, the Surge Tent system provides authorities with an ability to expand medical facility space in a short period of time. The Surge tent is versatile, as it can be deployed in various locations including airports, fields, parking lots and sport stadiums. It can withstand winds in excess of 80 mph. and has a snow load capacity of 10lbs per sq.ft. Using the Dynamic inflatable Isolation Rooms the Surge tent could be used as a stand-alone quarantine facility.
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The hospital surge shelter begins with versatility, as it can be deployed in different locations and climates around the world. In the event of a crisis, this multipurpose structure can be utilized as a hospital, command centre, barracks or as temporary shelter for victims.
Hospital Surge Capacity Shelter Applications
Hospital Surge
Install the structure at a predetermined site (hospital parking lot) or at a location close to the disaster scene. Configure the structure into a hospital triage / in-patient / out-patient/ hospital ward with surgical unit as per the requirements presented by the disaster itself.
The basic Hospital Surge Response Shelter can quickly be deployed to allow for the triage, treatment and disposition of adult and pediatric patients who suffer from acute illness or trauma requiring hospitalization from a biological, chemical, radiological or explosive terrorist incident.
Command Centre
Convert the shelter to an emergency response shelter that has been designed to provide a secure and protected environment in a first response role for Police, Fire, Military and Civilian emergency teams. An example, barrack’s for emergency workers combined with relief center and a command centre.
Temporary Shelter for Housing of Victims
Break the shelter into rooms for a temporary shelter source for victims who may have lost their housing.
Temporary Shelter for the treatment of “Worried Well”
HRSA advises hospitals to work closely with public health agencies, emergency response networks and others to manage not only the acutely ill but also the “worried well” individuals who are uninfected but anxious that they may have contracted a disease. Dena Bravata remarked that “near ground zero at the World Trade Center in New York the “worried well” far exceeded those needing medical care” To deal with the worried well the hospitals could interact with local mental health systems to create a system to take care of these individuals. The hospital surge shelter can easily adapt to accommodate the “Worried Well”
Primary Features of the Hospital Surge Capacity Shelter
Ease of installation
This structure can be assembled by utilizing manpower only. Lifting equipment is not required.
Site preparation and ballast
The placement of anchors or ballast can be pre-positioned. If a site has been prepared for installation with semi permanent anchors in place, installation time can be cut to a small fraction of time. If the shelter is located near the disaster site e.g. football field, installation time would include pounding in stakes.
Compact and portable
Shelters are supplied in carrying bags with one other component being the case for installation tools and blower. The packaging system allows for carriage in a single trailer (size of trailer dependent on size of Shelter. Shipping volume of the entire package will generally be as little as twenty percent of that of a conventional framed temporary shelter.
Wind and Weather resistant
The shape of the shelters will permit installation and operation in strong winds. The internal pressure of the air columns will withstand significant external forces, including bomb blasts, gaining strength and rigidity prior to becoming vertical and fully exposed. Specific data, pertaining to wind and snow load is provided with each system. The structures can be engineered to meet any municipal snow load guidelines. All shelters are engineered to meet all municipal requirements and are certified to The State of California Fire Marshall standard of NFPA 701.
Efficient
The air columns provide excellent insulation, which will allow you to use the shelter, both in the extremes of heat and cold. The inside air is separated from outside air by the width of the columns. An optional interior curtain would provide added insulating benefits. A complete structure will be maintained using only 4 amps of electricity. The larger the unit is, the more effective it becomes.
Size Options
Dynamic Air Shelters offers 4 sizes of Hospital Surge Shelters as follows:
13 × 23 , 22 × 42, 36 × 55 and 36 × 112
Installation
6 men – 6 hours – 6,000 sq ft.or12 men – 3 hours – 6,000 sq ft.
Installation can be achieved reasonably as long as one or two senior members of the installation team are fully trained.