Table 3 Challenges encountered
From: Challenges of the management of mass casualty: lessons learned from the Jos crisis of 2001
Communication | Â | Â |
|---|---|---|
| Â | Internal | Â |
| Â | External | Â |
| Â | With other agencies | Â |
Field challenges | Â | Â |
| Â | No triage | Â |
| Â | No pre-hospital care | Â |
| Â | Hazard to medical personnel | Â |
Hospital challenges | Â | Â |
| Â | Exhaustion of supplies | Â |
| Â | Â | Intravenous fluids |
| Â | Â | Drugs |
| Â | Â | Sterile dressings |
| Â | Â | Sterile instruments |
| Â | Â | Blood |
| Â | Poor record keeping | Â |
| Â | Â | Non registration |
| Â | Â | Non documentation |
| Â | Â | Incomplete documentation |
| Â | Staff exhaustion | Â |
| Â | Â | From fatigue/overwork |
| Â | Â | Anxiety/tension |
| Â | Hospital safety | Â |
| Â | Â | Rising tensions within |
| Â | Â | Threat of attack from outside |
| Â | Suboptimal patient care | Â |
| Â | Â | From exhaustion of supplies |
| Â | Â | Forgotten patients |
| Â | Â | Non trauma patients |
| Â | Â | Patients on admission prior to onset of crisis |