After the recent Ft. Hood shooting and last year's Boston Marathon bombing, hospitals around the country have stepped up preparation for mass casualty and emergency scenarios, according to an article on the Fierce Healthcare website.
Emergency leaders from Boston traveled the country this year to share what worked and what didn't on the day of the bombing, the article said.
"We're trying to share both the successes and the challenges. It's our responsibility," Paul Biddinger, M.D., chief of emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in the article.
For instance, Boston hospitals have changed their ambulance-stocking system, made tourniquets more accessible to workers, improved communication between ER staff and the operating room and changed procedures for tagging emergency room patients, according to the article.
Read the article.
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