Hospital incident command system is a series of management systems for emergencies response of hospitals from the United States. Some hospitals in many countries have applied this system, but it has not yet been applied in China. In the process of responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic, West China Hospital of Sichuan University managed coronavirus disease 2019 patients through a standardized and programmatic model using the concept and framework of hospital incident command system, which included organizing hospital incident management team, carrying out incident action plan, space management, personnel management, material management and information management, in order to carry out standardized and procedural crisis response. This article introduces these management measures of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, aiming to provide a reference for establishing a more complete hospital emergency management system in line with China’s system in the future.
