AURORA, Colo. — The University of Colorado Hospital’s Anschutz Medical Campus’s monthly mass casualty training for staff helped them to cope with an onslaught of patients from the deadly shooting that took place in a movie theater in Aurora on Friday.
Multiple patients arrived at the same time, and all had penetrating gunshot wounds, many to the abdomen or chest, the Detroit Free Press reports. There were 23 patients and 18 operating rooms, so staff activated a hospital-wide mass casualty response and came to the emergency and operating rooms with blood and other supplies.
The nearby Columbine school massacre of 1999 and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks changed how the hospital prepares for disaster. Training for mass casualty events has become part of the training over the past 10 years.
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