Emergency medical services response to active shooter incidents: Provider comfort level and attitudes before and after participation in a focused response training program

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 350-357

  Jones, Jerrilyn ^a,b   Kue, Ricky ^a,b   Mitchell, Patricia ^a   Eblan, Sgt Gary ^c   Dyer, K Sophia ^a,b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Boston Emergency Medical Services   (United States)

^c City of Boston Police Department Training Academy   (United States)

Author keywords

active shooter; Emergency Medical Services; response; shooting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BOSTON; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84908246760     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X14000648     Document Type: Review

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