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Tactical emergency medicine: lessons from Paris marauding terrorist attack

Author: Service Médical du RAID

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2016

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On the evening of 13 November 2015, three terrorists equipped with military-grade firearms and explosive jackets penetrated Bataclan, a Paris music hall containing 1500 people [1]. The terrorists started a massive execution of the people located in the orchestra pit. Terrorists then moved to the upper circle to take 400 people hostage. …

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Title: Tactical emergency medicine: lessons from Paris marauding terrorist attack
Author: Service Médical du RAID
Publication date: 01-12-2016
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1202-z

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