van Stekelenburg Brett C A, Klokman Vincent W, Tan Edward C T H, Barten Dennis G
Department of Emergency Medicine, VieCuri Medical Centre, Venlo, The Netherlands.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, Den Bosch, the Netherlands.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2025 Jan 3;18:e337. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2024.303.
Fires are among the most feared incidents that can occur in a hospital. Hospital fires will disrupt care continuity, may require the evacuation of patients and have the potential to result in injuries or even deaths. The aim of this study is to gain insight into hospital fires in the Netherlands over a 20-year period.
Systematic scoping review of news articles mentioning hospital fires in the Netherlands retrieved from the LexisNexis database, Google, Google News, PubMed, and EMBASE between 2000 and 2020. Hospital fires were included if they were associated with the closure of hospital departments or intervention units and/or evacuations. The cause, location, involved departments, need for evacuation, and the number of casualties were evaluated.
Twenty-four major hospital fires were identified. More than half of these were caused by technical failures, and in 6 cases (25%), the fires were attributed to patients. In 71% of the incidents, acute care departments were affected by the fire. Twenty fires (83%) resulted in the evacuation of patients. In 2 cases, the fire resulted in the death of a patient.
Patient-attributed fires are a significant cause of major hospital fires in the Netherlands. Prevention and mitigation measures should be implemented accordingly.
火灾是医院可能发生的最令人恐惧的事件之一。医院火灾会扰乱护理的连续性，可能需要疏散患者，并有导致受伤甚至死亡的可能性。本研究的目的是深入了解荷兰20年间的医院火灾情况。
对2000年至2020年间从LexisNexis数据库、谷歌、谷歌新闻、PubMed和EMBASE中检索到的提及荷兰医院火灾的新闻文章进行系统的范围综述。如果医院火灾与医院科室或干预单元的关闭和/或疏散有关，则将其纳入研究。对火灾原因、地点、涉及科室、疏散需求和伤亡人数进行了评估。
共识别出24起重大医院火灾。其中一半以上是由技术故障引起的，6起（25%）火灾归因于患者。在71%的事件中，急性护理科室受到火灾影响。20起火灾（83%）导致患者疏散。有2起火灾导致患者死亡。
患者引发的火灾是荷兰重大医院火灾的一个重要原因。应相应地实施预防和缓解措施。
