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Mass Casualty Incidents: Lessons from AAST. St.Emlyn’s

    Mass Casualty Incidents: What can we (re)learn?

This year, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma held its Annual Meeting in Baltimore – a city I called home for a while after I moved across the Atlantic a few years ago. It seemed fitting to have it here – while Baltimore is rich in history, it is certainly no stranger to violence.

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How to declare a Major Incident. St.Emlyn’s

Recent attacks in Manchester, London and around the world have heightened our awareness of the possibility of a major incident being declared at any time of day or night. As emergency physicians (and all specialities really) we need to think hard about how we prepare and organise ourselves for how we might respond.

This blog builds on the experience in Manchester and London regarding alerting…