#Emergenyc forcible entry

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Emergenyc forcible entry

Patients were stratified into three groupings: Control, Early CPOE and Late CPOE (n = 200 patients per group/hospital site). Setting: Three tertiary care hospitals serving a population in excess of 1 million inhabitants that initiated the same CPOE system during the same 3-week time window. This study examined the impact of CPOE on process times for medication delivery, laboratory utilization and diagnostic imaging in the early, late and control phases of a regional ED-CPOE implementation. They also liked that it can be customized with their company patch and name prior to the protective shrink tubing being applied this helps keep the tool from "wandering away" when the call is finished.Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are designed to increase safety and improve quality of care however, their impact on efficiency in the ED has not yet been validated. Responders like the small size of the tool, because they can carry it with their existing tools for forcing doors. We took the tool to trade shows in Ocean City, Md., Harrisburg, Pa., and Raleigh, N.C. We eventually settled on the current V-shape because we found that it worked with the widest variety of thumb locks that we experimented with.Įveryone we demonstrate the tool for is really amazed at how quickly and easily it can be used to access and operate the thumb lock to open the doors. Then we worked with several different types of claws that we could mount on the end of the J tube to be used to manipulate the thumb lock once the J tube was on the egress side of the doors. That was the beginning for the "J" part of the tool. So we started experimenting with different types and sizes of tubing that we could maneuver between the door panels through that gap. If the doors have a thumb lock on the egress side - and many of them do - it's only about an inch away from where you're standing on the other side. We started taking a look at how we could take advantage of that gap between the sliding door panels.

It got me to thinking that there had to be a better way. By this time, we were starting to get some positive readings on the monitor in the adjoining occupancies, so we wanted to get into them as well to check them out.Įventually, we did and we did minimal damage to the doors in doing so. There was a Knox Box on location, but the entry keys had not been kept up-to-date. We were getting some positive readings on the portable gas monitor, but not to the levels that made us think that we had to get in there immediately. It was one of those "It'd be nice to get in, but we don't want to do damage to the doors" situations. The occupancy in question had double sliding doors on Side A and we had great difficulty forcing entry. One night we responded to a reported gas leak at one of our suburban shopping malls. What was the inspiration for developing the tool?

The thumb key is operated from inside the building, resulting in little to no damage to the door and lock. Zour: The firefighter slides the JV Tool into the gap between the door panels that either exists because of the weather stripping between the door panels or is created by the first responder using a prying tool. I caught up with him to learn more about his company and tool creation.