RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mass casualty events: what to do as the dust settles?
JF Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e000210
DO 10.1136/tsaco-2018-000210
VO 3
IS 1
A1 Rachel M Russo
A1 Joseph M Galante
A1 John B Holcomb
A1 Warren Dorlac
A1 Jason Brocker
A1 David R King
A1 M Margaret Knudson
A1 Thomas M Scalea
A1 Michael L Cheatham
A1 Raymond Fang
YR 2018
UL http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000210.abstract
AB Care during mass casualty events (MCE) has improved during the last 15 years. Military and civilian collaboration has led to partnerships which augment the response to MCE. Much has been written about strategies to deliver care during an MCE, but there is little about how to transition back to normal operations after an event. A panel discussion entitled The Day(s) After: Lessons Learned from Trauma Team Management in the Aftermath of an Unexpected Mass Casualty Event at the 76th Annual American Association for the Surgery of Trauma meeting on September 13, 2017 brought together a cadre of military and civilian surgeons with experience in MCEs. The events described were the First Battle of Mogadishu (1993), the Second Battle of Fallujah (2004), the Bagram Detention Center Rocket Attack (2014), the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), the Asiana Flight 214 Plane Crash (2013), the Baltimore Riots (2015), and the Orlando Pulse Night Club Shooting (2016). This article focuses on the lessons learned from military and civilian surgeons in the days after MCEs.