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Citation |
Ward DI. Emerg. Med. Australas. 2011; 23(1): 98-102. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2011, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
On the last night of disaster relief operations in Sumatra, Indonesia, a mass casualty event occurred that involved deployed Australian Defence Force personnel. Symptoms of acute urticaria, angioedema, wheeze and gastrointestinal upset were experienced to varying degrees by 16% of the deployed element. The present report describes a presumed scombroid poisoning cluster and demonstrates the difficulties of operating in a deployed environment, the confusion that might be associated with evolving non‐kinetic mass casualties, and provides a learning opportunity for an unusual mass casualty incident. |