Westgate shootings: An emergency department approach to a mass-casualty incident

Benjamin W. Wachira; Ramadhani O. Abdalla; Lee A. Wallis

doi:10.1017/S1049023X1400096X

Westgate shootings: An emergency department approach to a mass-casualty incident

Benjamin W. Wachira, Ramadhani O. Abdalla, Lee A. Wallis

Emergency Medicine, East Africa

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Abstract

At approximately 12:30 pm on Saturday September 21, 2013, armed assailants attacked the upscale Westgate shopping mall in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya. Using the seven key Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) principles, command, safety, communication, assessment, triage, treatment, and transport, the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH,N) emergency department (ED) successfully coordinated the reception and care of all the casualties brought to the hospital. This report describes the AKUH,N ED response to the first civilian mass-casualty shooting incident in Kenya, with the hope of informing the development and implementation of mass-casualty emergency preparedness plans by other EDs and hospitals in Kenya, appropriate for the local health care system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	538-541
Number of pages	4
Journal	Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Volume	29
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X1400096X
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2014

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Kenya
disaster planning
emergency preparedness
terrorism

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