Response to mass casualty events: from the battlefield to the Stop the Bleed campaign

M Margaret Knudson; George Velmahos; Zara R Cooper

doi:10.1136/tsaco-2016-000023

Response to mass casualty events: from the battlefield to the Stop the Bleed campaign

Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2016 Jul 7;1(1):e000023. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2016-000023. eCollection 2016.

Authors

M Margaret Knudson¹, George Velmahos², Zara R Cooper³

Affiliations

¹ University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

In the aftermath of a number of episodes of mass casualty events, we must be reminded of how important it is to be prepared and to reflect on the knowledge accumulated over the past 15 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Keywords: Disasters; active hemorrhage; gunshot; mass casualty.