ABSTRACT
The terrorist attack of 11 March tested the response of the Plastic Surgery Department of our center to respond to a mass casualty event. The work performed in the first few hours continued with the same intensity for several days because some patients required more than one intervention and because we were called on by other services to attend patients who could not be evaluated in the Emergency Department. In the present article, we describe the distribution of work and the types of injury produced by terrorist explosions.
Subject(s)
Blast Injuries/surgery , Emergency Service, Hospital/organization & administration , Hospitals, University/organization & administration , Mass Casualty Incidents/statistics & numerical data , Plastic Surgery Procedures/statistics & numerical data , Surgery, Plastic , Blast Injuries/epidemiology , Explosions , Humans , SpainABSTRACT
El día 11 de marzo, tras producirse el atentado terrorista de Madrid, se puso a prueba la actitud del Servicio de Cirugía Plástica de nuestro centro ante una situación de catástrofe. El trabajo desarrollado en las primeras horas se mantuvo casi con la misma intensidad durante varios días, ya que encontramos pacientes que necesitaron ser intervenidos en más de una ocasión, y porque surgían llamadas e interconsultas de otros servicios para atender a individuos a los que no pudo valorarse en urgencias. En este artículo comentamos la distribución del trabajo y el tipo de lesiones que se derivan de este tipo de atentados (AU)
The terrorist attack of 11 March tested the response of the Plastic Surgery Department of our center to respond to a mass casualty event. The work performed in the first few hours continued with the same intensity for several days because some patients required more than one intervention and because we were called on by other services to attend patients who could not be evaluated in the Emergency Department. In the present article, we describe the distribution of work and the types of injury produced by terrorist explosions (AU)
