Team echo: Observations and lessons learned in the recovery phase of the 2004 Asian Tsunami

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages

  Bridgewater, Franklin H G ^a   Aspinall, Edward T ^b   Booth, Joy P M ^b   Capps, Roger A ^b   Grantham, Hugh J M ^b   Pearce, Andrew P ^b   Ritchie, Brett K ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Australian Agency for International Development   (Australia)

Author keywords

administration; Australia; disaster; emergency medical services; emergency treatment; Indonesia; injury; numerical data; nursing; organization; rescue work; statistics; surgery; tsunami; wounds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMI;

AUSTRALIA; DISASTER PLANNING; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RESCUE WORK; TRANSLATING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; DISASTERS; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 33646578814     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00015831     Document Type: Article

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