Author: Katie Stuart MD; Washington University Emergency Medicine Residency Editors: Sarah Fabiano MD, FACEP, FAAEM & Michael DeFilippo DO You are a second-year emergency medicine resident physician doing a ride along with a helicopter-based EMS (HEMS) agency. You are dispatched to the scene of a golf cart versus tree. The air crew successfully identifies a
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Article by Veronica “Vee” Smith, MD Case It’s 11 o’clock in the morning on a sunny autumn day. Your radio alerts you about a mass casualty event and you are then dispatched to what turns out to be a school shooting. The estimated casualty count is over 20 with an unknown number of injured victims
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