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European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 4/2020

01-08-2020 | Triage | Original Article

Terrorist incidents: strategic treatment objectives, tactical diagnostic procedures and the estimated need of blood and clotting products

Authors: Axel Franke, Dan Bieler, Benedikt Friemert, Patrick Hoth, Hans-Christoph Pape, Gerhard Achatz, and the Deployment, Disaster and Tactical Surgery Working Group of the German Trauma Society

Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery | Issue 4/2020

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Abstract

Background

Terrorism-related incidents that are associated with mass casualties (mass-casualty terrorist incidents) are a medical and organisational challenge for every hospital because of the special injury patterns involved, the time of the incident, the development of the situation, the initial lack of information, the number of injured, and the number of uninjured survivors who self-refer to a hospital.

Methods

The Terror and Disaster Surgical Care (TDSC®) - Course was developed in order to address mass-casualty terrorist incidents and to provide surgeons with the specialist medical and surgical knowledge and skills required for these special situations. The focus of the TDSC® course is on how to provide surgical care and how to deploy scarce resources in a particular tactical situation in such a way that the number of survivors is maximised.

Results

The effective management of such a tactical situation must be based on priorities and first and foremost requires the standardised sorting and categorisation of the injured at the hospital. The aim of triage, or the sorting of the injured, is to immediately identify patients with life-threatening injuries in environments with strained resources. The medical management of mass-casualty terrorist incidents requires tactical abbreviated surgical care (TASC) teams that have the skills needed to perform a primary survey and to provide care for casualties who need immediate surgery (triage category 1—T1). Initial fluid therapy should be restrictive (permissive hypotension) unless contraindicated. Clotting products are replaced in a standardised manner on the basis of patient requirements, which are calculated using rapidly available surrogates (blood gas analysis). Blood products can be administered or kept available depending on risks and triage categories. The highest priority should be given to the identification and management of haemodynamically unstable patients who require immediate surgery for injuries associated with bleeding into body cavities (T1 + +).

Conclusion

The recommendations and approaches described here should be considered as proposals for hospitals to develop standards or modify well-established standards that enable them to prepare themselves successfully for situations (e.g. mass-casualty terrorist or shooter incidents) in which their resources are temporarily overwhelmed.
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Metadata
Title
Terrorist incidents: strategic treatment objectives, tactical diagnostic procedures and the estimated need of blood and clotting products
Authors
Axel Franke
Dan Bieler
Benedikt Friemert
Patrick Hoth
Hans-Christoph Pape
Gerhard Achatz
and the Deployment, Disaster and Tactical Surgery Working Group of the German Trauma Society
Publication date
01-08-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords
Triage
Care
Published in
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 1863-9933
Electronic ISSN: 1863-9941
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-020-01399-w

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