TY - JOUR T1 - Asian earthquake: report from the first volunteer British hospital team in Pakistan JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 543 LP - 546 DO - 10.1136/emj.2006.037333 VL - 24 IS - 8 AU - S Laverick AU - S Kazmi AU - S Ahktar AU - J Raja AU - S Perera AU - A Bokhari AU - S Meraj AU - K Ayub AU - A da Silva AU - M Pye AU - M Anser AU - J Pye Y1 - 2007/08/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/8/543.abstract N2 - At 8:52 am on 8 October 2005 a massive earthquake wracked northern Pakistan and Kashmir. Various teams were sent to Islamabad and the disaster region from the UK. We discuss the types of injury patterns seen and recommend that a central register of volunteers should be created to deal with similar situations in the future. ER -