Fire Safety and Emergency Evacuation Guidelines for Intensive Care Units and Operating Theatres For Use in the Event of Fire Flood Power Cut Oxyge

This consensus document is based on lessons learned from numerous fires in intensive care units that necessitated full-scale patient evacuations. Recommendations include having the ability to isolate individual zones; clear exit routes; small bays or side rooms; separate clinical and non-clinical areas; and annual mandatory staff training in basic fire suppression and evacuation training in their clinical area of work that includes training on the location of manual fire alarms and fire extinguishers, evacuation routes, and location and operation of area valve service units.