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@article{187704,
        author = {Jay Kumar Gupta, Ph. D. Scholar, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi and Prof. Dr. Amarjeet Kaur, Director, CEDM, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi and Prof. Dr. Neeraja Lugani Sethi,Dean, USAP, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi and Prof. Dr. Virendra Kumar Paul, Director, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and Dr. Priyanka Kumari, Visiting Faculty, CEDM, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi},
        title = {Critical Analysis of Smoke Management System and Strategies in Healthcare Facilities},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {6230-6239},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=187704},
        abstract = {Hospital facilities are unique environments that require robust fire and life safety measures due to the presence of vulnerable occupants (critical and bedridden patients, majority of them are on life support systems), complex building layouts, vital medical infrastructure, and bona-fide hospital operations, including various procedures in OTs, ICUs, ICCUs, NICUs, PICUs, radiation therapies, etc., where the safety and well-being of patients, medical staff, and visitors are of utmost importance. Therefore, fire incidents in hospitals pose significant risks due to all these vulnerabilities, complexities, and potential for high patient occupancy.
This article presents a systematic study, performance review, and critical analysis of passive measures, protection system, smoke control & smoke management system and strategies in different super-specialty healthcare facilities, both under the public and private sectors. In these endeavours, various healthcare facilities were extensively audited from the fire & life safety point of view and results were drawn on the basis of systematic gap identification and risk analysis. Further, the results of a thorough investigation and critical analysis of each hospital case with regard to the effectiveness & efficient operation of the smoke management system and integration of various smoke management strategies, emphasizing their mutually significant interactions were also outlined in this paper. It also identifies the ways in which these systems interact with one another, which is important for coordinating efforts to improve fire and life safety as well as the overall resilience of healthcare facilities.},
        keywords = {Smoke management system, passive measures, protection system, smoke management strategies, healthcare facilities, fire protection & life safety.},
        month = {November},
        }