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Emergency response to terrorist attacks: results of the federal-conducted evaluation process in Germany

PURPOSE: Rescue missions during terrorist attacks are extremely challenging for all rescue forces (police as well as non-police forces) involved. To improve the quality and safety of the rescue missions during an active killing event, it is obligatory to adapt common rescue mission goals and strateg...

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Autores principales: Wurmb, Thomas, Franke, Axel, Schorscher, Nora, Kowalzik, Barbara, Helm, Matthias, Bohnen, Renate, Helmerichs, Jutta, Grueneisen, Ulrich, Cwojdzinski, Detlef, Jung, Georg, Lücking, Gesa, Weber, Martin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00068-020-01347-8
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author Wurmb, Thomas
Franke, Axel
Schorscher, Nora
Kowalzik, Barbara
Helm, Matthias
Bohnen, Renate
Helmerichs, Jutta
Grueneisen, Ulrich
Cwojdzinski, Detlef
Jung, Georg
Lücking, Gesa
Weber, Martin
author_facet Wurmb, Thomas
Franke, Axel
Schorscher, Nora
Kowalzik, Barbara
Helm, Matthias
Bohnen, Renate
Helmerichs, Jutta
Grueneisen, Ulrich
Cwojdzinski, Detlef
Jung, Georg
Lücking, Gesa
Weber, Martin
author_sort Wurmb, Thomas
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description PURPOSE: Rescue missions during terrorist attacks are extremely challenging for all rescue forces (police as well as non-police forces) involved. To improve the quality and safety of the rescue missions during an active killing event, it is obligatory to adapt common rescue mission goals and strategies. METHODS: After the recent attacks in Europe, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance started an evaluation process on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Health. This was done to identify weaknesses, lessons learned and to formulate new adapted guidelines. RESULTS: The presented bullet point recommendations summarise the basic and most important results of the ongoing evaluation process for the Federal Republic of Germany. The safety of all the rescue forces and survival of the greatest possible number of casualties are the priority goals. Furthermore, the preservation and re-establishment of the socio-political integrity are the overarching goals of the management of active killing events. Strategic incident priorities are to stop the killing and to save as much lives as possible. The early identification and prioritised transportation of casualties with life-threatening non-controllable bleeding are major tasks and the shortest possible on-scene time is an important requirement with respect to safety issues. CONCLUSION: With respect to hazard prevention tactics within Germany, we attributed the highest priority impact to the bullet points. The focus of the process has now shifted to intense work about possible solutions for the identified deficits and implementation strategies of such solutions during mass killing incidents.
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spelling pubmed-74295372020-08-19 Emergency response to terrorist attacks: results of the federal-conducted evaluation process in Germany Wurmb, Thomas Franke, Axel Schorscher, Nora Kowalzik, Barbara Helm, Matthias Bohnen, Renate Helmerichs, Jutta Grueneisen, Ulrich Cwojdzinski, Detlef Jung, Georg Lücking, Gesa Weber, Martin Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg Original Article PURPOSE: Rescue missions during terrorist attacks are extremely challenging for all rescue forces (police as well as non-police forces) involved. To improve the quality and safety of the rescue missions during an active killing event, it is obligatory to adapt common rescue mission goals and strategies. METHODS: After the recent attacks in Europe, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance started an evaluation process on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Health. This was done to identify weaknesses, lessons learned and to formulate new adapted guidelines. RESULTS: The presented bullet point recommendations summarise the basic and most important results of the ongoing evaluation process for the Federal Republic of Germany. The safety of all the rescue forces and survival of the greatest possible number of casualties are the priority goals. Furthermore, the preservation and re-establishment of the socio-political integrity are the overarching goals of the management of active killing events. Strategic incident priorities are to stop the killing and to save as much lives as possible. The early identification and prioritised transportation of casualties with life-threatening non-controllable bleeding are major tasks and the shortest possible on-scene time is an important requirement with respect to safety issues. CONCLUSION: With respect to hazard prevention tactics within Germany, we attributed the highest priority impact to the bullet points. The focus of the process has now shifted to intense work about possible solutions for the identified deficits and implementation strategies of such solutions during mass killing incidents. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-03-23 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7429537/ /pubmed/32206880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00068-020-01347-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Kowalzik, Barbara
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Bohnen, Renate
Helmerichs, Jutta
Grueneisen, Ulrich
Cwojdzinski, Detlef
Jung, Georg
Lücking, Gesa
Weber, Martin
Emergency response to terrorist attacks: results of the federal-conducted evaluation process in Germany
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00068-020-01347-8
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