Catastrophe surgery: response to multiple casualties or individual patients with devastating injuries.

摘要

Picture this: you are a surgeon-on-call in a town in Saskatchewan and you receive word that a school bus has been in a head-on collision with another bus. Or the town is in British Columbia and a passenger train has derailed. Maybe you are in Nova Scotia when there has been a mine explosion or in Toronto for a gas depot explosion. Or you are in Montreal and a gunman has caused multiple casualties in a school. How would you react? Could you cope?