title: 'Adrenaline' mollifies earthquake's impact.
abstract: Alan Bavis, facilities and engineering manager at New Zealand's Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB), based in Christchurch, explains how well-rehearsed contingency planning procedures, reliable, well-maintained plant, and an "excellent team spirit", combined with "sheer adrenaline", helped he and his estates team keep vital hospital services running in the aftermath of the major earthquake which hit the country's South Island in September this year.
authors.affiliation: New Zealand Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bavis
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D055866:Earthquakes; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009520:New Zealand