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The emergency room at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center's response to last month's mass shooting in Las Vegas offers lessons for hospitals in how to prepare for a mass casualty incident.
Kevin Menes, M.D., was the attending physician in the emergency department on Oct. 1, and he told Emergency Physicians Monthly that he followed his own "mental plan" as he prepared to treat the influx of patients following the shooting.
He said he had long been mentally preparing for a potential shooting, but didn't want to bring...