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Setting Up a Trauma Center

Over recent years, the U.S. has seen a surge in trauma centers opening up as hospitals expand their offerings to treat critically injured patients while also increasing their bottom line. At the same time, dangerous remote work operations and emergency response teams are realizing the importance of having trauma centers on hand to reduce permanent…

Guide to Creating Space for Medical Surge

The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has been an eye-opener for hospitals around the nation and the world that did not have the infrastructure to accommodate such a sudden increase in demand. Faced with patients in need of urgent care and nowhere to treat them, hospitals in outbreak epicenters have had to get creative: One…

Vice-President Mike Pence Considers Field Hospitals for Coronavirus Hotspots as All 50 States Report Cases of the Coronavirus

Yesterday, West Virginia reported its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). All 50 States now have confirmed cases. The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recently stated, “We are at a critical inflection point in this country…”. His comment was later followed by, “When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.”

Tour the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre Warehouse

Abigail Trewin, Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Response, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, discusses Australia's foreign policy, gives a tour of their warehouse – "the supermarket of disasters," and how the AUSMAT is able to rapidly respond to crises around the world. Video courtesy of the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs…

BLU-MED Medical Facilities and Mobile Field Hospitals vs. Expandable Hospital Containers

When man-made or natural disasters require an immediate emergency response, deployable medical facilities allow hospitals, first responders, governments, and relief organizations to quickly respond with medical facilities capable of providing basic to advanced-level care …when and where needed™. Whether it is part of a state-level emergency preparedness plan, hospitals establishing an alternate emergency operation center…

The Vietnam Peacekeeping Center’s Level-2 Field Hospital Training Exercise

The Vietnam Peacekeeping Center (VPC), Military Hospital 175, and the Department of Military Medicine under the Vietnam Ministry of Defence in association with the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), recently held a series of lecture-based training and hands-on training exercises to prepare and train officers of the VPC and the Ministry of National Defence of…

Equipping Modern Field Hospitals for Effective Disaster Response

Field hospitals play a critically important role in disaster response, from natural calamities like flooding or hurricanes, to outbreak of disease and violent conflicts. These facilities are the primary drivers for reducing the human life consequences of disaster, and helping survivors recover more quickly. Ample equipment and staffing of field hospitals is key to their…

The Importance of Deployable Morgues for Disaster Sites

Natural disasters of all types and intensity carry risk of fatalities. Even minor inclement weather scenarios can have tragic effects and loss of life. Deployable morgues fill a critical need within effective medical care operations at disaster sites. Disaster response planning should always include these systems in order to manage deceased victims respectfully, efficiently, and…

Hurricane Matthew Emphasizes the Need for Emergency Preparedness and Mobile Medical Facilities

BLU-MED® 25-bed mobile hospital deployed in Leogane following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The 2016 hurricane season is in full swing and the forecast for the season’s peak (occurs around September 10 each year) is promising to be a devastating one. Having inflicted destruction across many Caribbean islands including the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, Hurricane…

Ecuador and Japan Earthquakes Highlight Need for Mobile Medical Facilities

Deadly earthquakes have struck regions of Ecuador and Japan in the past week, resulting in hundreds of deaths, thousands injured, and leaving a combined total of almost 450,000 in need of aid and/or shelter. The extreme and sudden effects of large scale disasters highlight a need for mobile medical facilities and shelter accommodation that can…

Portable Disaster Response Structures for Flooding

Flooding causes a sudden state of emergency that can force communities to evacuate residents to safety, displace families from their homes and cause damage to vital infrastructure. In South Carolina, heavy rains swamped local communities, triggering President Barack Obama to declare a state of disaster from flooding. Since Oct. 3, at least 13 dams failed,…

Mobile Medical Facilities for Remote Locations

Disaster response requires additional considerations and needs when the affected community is in a remote location. Without the support of nearby medical treatment facilities and emergency response infrastructure, these communities can be affected more severely in disasters than urban settings. Mobile medical facilities offer the flexibility and portability needed to support remote locations in their…

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is better prepared to save lives after a manmade or natural disaster with products and training provided by BLU-MED Response Systems. Jordan purchased a 50-bed BLU-MED Field Hospital that includes an operating room and intensive care unit, staff housing, a dining hall, toilet facilities, a medical oxygen generator system, a…

How BLU-MED Deployable Field Hospitals are Full Extensions of Hospitals

BLU-MED Response Systems provide hospitals and communities with rapidly deployable medical facilities to act as surge and isolation capacity in the case of a disaster. For local government agencies and medical organizations, this feature is significant. As part of their emergency planning and disaster response programs, these agencies must consider the effects a disaster will have…

Rapid response in the immediate aftermath of a manmade or natural disaster can mean the difference between life and death. That’s why BLU-MED Response Systems created the XP Response Package, the most rapidly deployable emergency medical response system on the market. The XP medical shelter provides 520 square feet of safe, clean floor space capable…

XP Response Packages for Emergency Response Training

Conducting drills presents local, state and federal agencies with the opportunity to test and fine-tune their emergency response and disaster preparedness plans. Access to reliable equipment makes emergency response training drills more effective, and no product offers more proven reliability than the XP Response Package, the premiere system for training exercises as well as response to…

Emergency Shelters for Emergency Management

Shrinking budgets have forced many state and local agencies to delay or scrap plans to purchase vital equipment for emergency preparedness and natural disasters. In response to this trend in limited funding, BLU-MED Response Systems® created the XP Medical Response Package. This rapid response system features a high-quality, affordable facility that provides 520 square feet of…

The United Nations released its 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15) last week along with a request for more international investment toward a global disaster risk management fund. According to the yearly report’s findings, disaster losses worldwide average $250 billion to $300 billion annually. The report also stated that a $6 billion…

Measles: US Outbreak Grows; Toddler Dies in Germany

The measles outbreak in the United States continues to grow. Thirteen new cases were confirmed in the last week, bringing the total number of U.S. cases to 154 across 17 states and the District of Columbia. A measles outbreak in Germany claimed its first victim this week with the death of an 18-month-old toddler at…

Common Problems in Disaster Response Efforts

Reported natural disasters have been on the rise – almost year over year – since the mid-1940s. This increase in occurrence and reports requires the development and innovation of best practices, processes and programs for effective disaster response. Unfortunately, many governments and agencies are ill equipped to provide the support needed to help a community…

Category Archives: Medical Facility

Setting Up a Trauma Center

Guide to Creating Space for Medical Surge

Vice-President Mike Pence Considers Field Hospitals for Coronavirus Hotspots as All 50 States Report Cases of the Coronavirus

Tour the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre Warehouse

BLU-MED Medical Facilities and Mobile Field Hospitals vs. Expandable Hospital Containers

The Vietnam Peacekeeping Center’s Level-2 Field Hospital Training Exercise

Equipping Modern Field Hospitals for Effective Disaster Response

The Importance of Deployable Morgues for Disaster Sites

Hurricane Matthew Emphasizes the Need for Emergency Preparedness and Mobile Medical Facilities

Ecuador and Japan Earthquakes Highlight Need for Mobile Medical Facilities

Portable Disaster Response Structures for Flooding

Mobile Medical Facilities for Remote Locations

Jordan Upgrades Its Disaster Response

How BLU-MED Deployable Field Hospitals are Full Extensions of Hospitals

Proven Emergency Medical Response

XP Response Packages for Emergency Response Training

Emergency Shelters for Emergency Management

UN: More Disaster Risk Management Funds

Measles: US Outbreak Grows; Toddler Dies in Germany

Common Problems in Disaster Response Efforts

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