Anaesthesia in a Disaster Zone: A Report on the Experience of an Australian Medical Team in Banda Aceh following the ‘Boxing Day Tsunami’
Open Access
- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Vol. 33 (5) , 629-634
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057x0503300513
Abstract
We report on the experience of a 23-member Australian medical team in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Arriving 13 days after the tsunami that devastated the city, killed 100,000 of its inhabitants and injured thousands more, we carried out 130 surgical procedures in austere conditions over a 12-day period. Most surgery was peripheral, principally for plastic surgical or orthopaedic procedures to lower limb injuries. Intravenous ketamine anaesthesia was the technique of choice, with good surgical conditions and few significant side-effects.Keywords
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