title: What goes wrong at a disaster or major incident?
abstract: From a receiving hospital's perspective a major incident is 'an accident about to happen'. The potential for chaos is present at every phase. This short paper describes in a chronological fashion the common traps and pitfalls and how to avoid them.
authors.affiliation: University College London Medical School.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gavalas
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D012308:Risk Management; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014218:Triage; D006113:United Kingdom