Estimating horizontal movement performance of patient beds and the impact on emergency evacuation time

• Main Authors: Kwak, Jaeyoung, Lees, Michael H., Cai, Wentong, Pourghaderi, Ahmad Reza, Ong, Marcus E. H.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Emergency Evacuation; Patient Bed
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160983
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Emergency evacuation of patients from a hospital can be challenging in the event of a fire. Most emergency evacuation studies are based on the assumption that pedestrians are ambulant and can egress by themselves. However, this is often not the case during emergency evacuations in healthcare faci...