Citation

Hick JL, Nelson J, Fildes J, Kuhls D, Eastman A, Dries D. J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN - Department of Surgery; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - Department of Surgery.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American College of Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.10.011

PMID

31734388

Abstract

‘Conventional’ traumatic mass casualty events such as natural disasters or major road accidents result in very low rates of emergent operative intervention. Mass violence events, which are designed to kill or injure as many people as possible, have a markedly increased rate of emergent surgical intervention compared to ‘conventional’ trauma (1,2). The unfortunate truth is that most of our communities have either experienced an incident of mass violence, such as a shooting or bombing, or will during our careers.

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