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PAUL LUCKIN <\/strong>MB BCh, DA, FFA, M.MED.ANAESTHESIA (Natal), FANZCA On Boxing Day 2004, a tsunami smashed into Indonesia. The ocean travelled 4km inland, sweeping everything before it. Banda was roiling under mud, sewage, dead animals and people.<\/p>\n Two days later, a team including Wing Commander David Scott and Lieutenant Commander Paul Luckin flew out.\u00a0 When they arrived in Banda, there were bodies everywhere and the stench of decay was overpowering.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was in our mouths, clothes, skin, and hair, and stayed with us for a long time after coming home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n Most patients were septicaemic, malarial and anaemic. Many had contaminated penetrating limb wounds. Triage was brutal, and surgery was massive debridement. Tourniquets were made with suction tubing and the “sterile field” was the paper from the glove packets.<\/p>\n Amputations were performed using small and carefully titrated doses of ketamine and morphine or midazolam and a trickle of oxygen.<\/p>\n Some died in theatre or immediately afterwards but, most survived.<\/p>\n The final death toll in Banda Aceh was 160,000.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#595959″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Bodies_in_Banda_Aceh_after_2004_tsunami_DD-SD-06-07373.jpg” alt=”Tsunami damage and casualties ” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”dark” text_orientation=”center”]<\/p>\n Amid trash and debris, the shrouded bodies of the deceased lay on a street in downtown Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia,following the massive Tsunami that struck the area on December 26, 2004. 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\nDAVID M SCOTT<\/strong> B Med, PGC Clin US, FANZCA
\nBOXING DAY TSUNAMI<\/p>\n