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On the ground in Nias in response to an earthquake – an emergency team's experience
Author(s) -
Jackson Angela,
Little Mark
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00829.x
Subject(s) - medicine , indonesian , software deployment , emergency response , scale (ratio) , medical emergency , disaster response , disaster medicine , emergency management , cartography , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , engineering , geography , philosophy , linguistics , software engineering , law , political science
Within a few short months of the tsunami, an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale devastated the Indonesian island of Nias. The present paper describes the experiences of two emergency medicine staff deployed to the island operating in small teams on the remote western part of the island. It discusses the benefits of utilizing experienced emergency medicine staff and looks at lessons learnt from the deployment.