‘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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