ETS Training material
The in-hospital patients are the patients that are already at the hospital (for example a waiting room or examination room in the ED, on surgery or waiting for surgery at the surgery department or at ICU. It is up to the participants in an ETS exercise to decide how to manage those patients.
The patients can be evaluated according to surge capacity outcome and can be evaluated with an evaluation template if the decisions made for the patient put them at risk and/or if the hospital resources are overutilized. The in-hospital patients do not have any management card.
All in-hospital patients ID-number starts with an H to seperate them from the trauma victims.
In-hospital patient bank Emergency department
The in-hospital ED patients are in the Emergency department (or the waiting room) when the exercise starts. If there for example is a large influx of patients from an incident coming, it is to the participants in an ETS exercise to decide how to manage those patients. For example, send home, send to a ward etc.
On the front side is a short health history and anamnesis. The back side of the patients show vital signs, A-E. In the set is also included a template with detailed information to be used by the ETS instructor if the students for example send a patient to the X-ray and need answer of the outcome from the X-ray.
Available in medium 100 patients (H1-H100) and small (H1-H50).
In-hospital patient bank Surgery department
The in-hospital Surgery patients are at the Surgery department when the exercise starts- either in ongoing surgery or waiting for surgery. It is up to the participants in an ETS exercise to decide how to manage those patients; do they need immediate surgery or can they wait 1 hour, 2 hours?
On the front side is a short health history and anamnesis. The back side show what kind of surgery is necessary and surgery time – the time the patient will occupy an operation room. Time in post-op and/or ICU are also shown on the back side.
Available in medium 100 patients (H201-H300) and small (H201-H250).
In-hospital patient bank ICU
The in-hospital ICU patients are in the ICU when the exercise starts. It is up to the participants in an ETS exercise to decide how to manage those patients; do they need to stay at the ICU in a ventilator, can they be moved to a ward to free ventilator beds?
Available in one size of 50 patients (H401-H450).