ICU specialists facing terrorist attack: the Nice experience

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On the night of 14 July 2016, the city of Nice suffered a terrorist attack. A truck drove through a crowd causing initially 84 deaths and 372 injured victims. Most of them suffered multiple crush trauma resulting in brain, thoraco-abdominal and lower limbs injuries. These initial casualties were transferred as follows: 183 to the Nice university level 1 trauma center, 102 to other public and private hospitals in Nice, and 87 to regional public and private hospitals. Among them, 98 were hospitalized in these facilities, most in the Nice trauma center. Of these 98 patients, 18 had surgery during the first night and 11 the following day. During the first hours, 20 victims considered as absolute emergencies were admitted to our ICU. …