Crisis in the Emergency Department
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- 28 September 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 355 (13) , 1300-1303
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp068194
Abstract
At 2 a.m. on July 27, 1996, I stood in the ambulance bay of Grady Memorial Hospital, awaiting the first of 35 severely injured bombing victims who would be brought to Grady from Atlanta's Olympic Park over the next 2 hours. Although it was a harrowing experience for all involved, the response of Grady's ambulance service, emergency physicians, and trauma surgeons was so efficient that the hospital had returned to normal operations by 7 a.m.Keywords
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