The New England Journal of Medicine offers a series of articles by British doctors detailing their experiences during last month's bomb attacks on the London Underground. The suicide attacks, which killed 56 people and injured about 700, offer valuable lessons for both first responders and healthcare providers, write doctors Ryan and Montgomery. While the attacks were not unexpected, their scope and timing created logistical challenges. Doctors treating victims also had to deal with the possibility -- considered very real by authorities at first -- that radiological devices were involved.
- read Prehospital and Hospital Care by Redhead, Ward & Batrick
- read Terrorism and Medical Response by Ryan & Montgomery
- read Improvising in an Emergency by Holden