Anticipating Needs

I've asked the crew in Haiti to post on their blog at least several times a week if not daily a list of what they have lined up. In that way you can see what directions the disease incidences are taking.

 

The board lists about 25 cases some of which are marked complete.  The upper right hand corner shows the patients scheduled for redebridement. The lower right those for skin grafting.  The list reflects not only what is coming to the triage tent but what the surgeons need. For example, the list showed a number of closed femur fractures while we were waiting for Lew Zirkle and the SIGN nails.  The day after he was there the number of femurs had greatly decreased.

    Im terms of your team you will need more nurses than surgeons. You may also want people to do security on the grounds.  Everyone in town wants to translate for you as that means one meal a day.  Other teams in town have reported some "shrinkage" in their supplies.  Another reason for security people.  We had an engineer with us. He also wasn't bored.