Prehospital Considerations for Mass Shooting Incidents

Matthew J Levy¹, Alexander L Eastman², Eric Epley³, Katherine W Schweit^{4

5}, David E Slattery⁶, Jeremy W Cannon^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (Levy).
² US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC (Eastman).
³ Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, San Antonio, TX (Epley).
⁴ Schweit Consulting, LLC, Centreville, VA (Schweit).
⁵ DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL (Schweit).
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Las Vegas, NV (Slattery).
⁷ Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Cannon).
⁸ Department of Surgery, F Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD (Cannon).

Matthew J Levy et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 1;236(1):269-272.

doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000451. Epub 2022 Dec 15.

Matthew J Levy¹, Alexander L Eastman², Eric Epley³, Katherine W Schweit^{4

5}, David E Slattery⁶, Jeremy W Cannon^{7

8}

¹ From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (Levy).
² US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC (Eastman).
³ Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, San Antonio, TX (Epley).
⁴ Schweit Consulting, LLC, Centreville, VA (Schweit).
⁵ DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL (Schweit).
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Las Vegas, NV (Slattery).
⁷ Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Cannon).
⁸ Department of Surgery, F Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD (Cannon).

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Comment in

Mass Shooting Incidents, Prehospital Management, and Safety During Crisis.
Mungmunpuntipantip R, Wiwanitkit V. Mungmunpuntipantip R, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2023 Jan 1;236(1):274. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000459. Epub 2022 Dec 15. J Am Coll Surg. 2023. PMID: 36239394 No abstract available.

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