@article{ref1,
title="Organization in response to massive afflux of war victims in civilian practice - experimental feedback from the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks",
journal="Journal of visceral surgery",
year="2017",
author="Borel, M. and Rousseau, R. and Le Sache, F. and Pariente, D. and Castro, S. and Delay, M. and Hausfater, P. and Raux, M. and Menegaux, F.",
volume="154",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="S3-S7",
abstract="The arrival of a large number of war-weapon casualties at a civilian trauma center requires anticipation. A plan defining the management principles and the respective roles of the involved physicians and nurses and their interaction with each other is essential. Uni-directional patient flow associated with adequate numbers of staff physicians and nurses under the leadership of a medical director is essential to prevent the overwhelming of the trauma center. Routine and regular interaction between the pre-hospital medical flow control system and the medical director, on one hand, and between surgical teams and the medical director, on the other, are necessary to know when to apply &quot;damage control&quot; surgical techniques. Based on the feedback of a level 1 trauma center that received 53 victims of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, we present the factors of success, and the stumbling blocks.<br><br>Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1878-7886",
doi="10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2017.07.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2017.07.007"
}