Lessons Learned from Cross-border Medical Response to the Terrorist Bombings in Tabba and Ras-el-Satan, Egypt, on 07 October 2004

Abstract

Large-scale, terrorist attacks at a peripheral border zone can be handled by international collaboration, reinforcement of medical teams at the site itself and at the peripheral neighboring hospital, rapid rearrangement of an "evacuation hospital", and efficient transport to trauma centers by ambulances, helicopters, and other aircraft.