Blood product needs and transfusion timelines for the multisite massive Paris 2015 terrorist attack: A retrospective

Thibault Martinez1, Anne François, Thomas Pouget

  • 1From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care (T.M., S.A.), Percy Military Hospital, Clamart; French Blood Institute (A.F.), Paris, France; French Military Blood Institute (T.P.), Clamart, France; SAMU 75 (P.C.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; SAMU 93 (F.L.), Hôpital Avicenne, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Bobigny, France; Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care (T.G.), Hôpital Beaujon, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Nord-Val-De-Seine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Clichy, France; Université Paris Sud, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care (S.R.H.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Bicêtre Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Sud, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France; CESP, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud (S.R.H.), UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, France; CESP, INSERM, Maison de Solenn (S.R.H.), France; Service Médical du RAID (M.L.), Bièvres, France; Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care (M.L., E.D., M.R.), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Department of Emergency Medicine and Surgery (B.R.), Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Department of Emergency (Y.Y., D.P.), France, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Emergency Department (A.-L.F.-P.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Begin Military Hospital, Department of Emergency (A.W.), Saint Mandé, France; Hôpital Saint Louis, Department of Emergency (C.O.), Hôpital Lariboisière, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care (E.G.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Hôpital Henri Mondor, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care (A.A.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France; Hôpital Bichat, Division of Vascular Surgery (Y.C.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Institut Médico-légal de Paris (B.L.), Paris, France; Paris Fire Brigade, Emergency Medical Department (J.-P.T.), Paris, France; French Military Health Service Schools (S.A.), Lyon, France; Université Paris Diderot (E.G., Y.C.), Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes (P.C., B.L.), Paris, France; Université Paris 13 (F.L.), Bobigny, France; Sorbonne Université (M.R.), UMRS Inserm 1158, France; Sorbonne Université (D.P., B.R.), UMRS Inserm 1166, IHU ICAN, Paris, France; and Sorbonne Université (Y.Y.), UMRS Inserm 1136, Paris, France.

Summary

Rapid administration of labile blood products (LBPs) is critical for survival after terrorist attacks. This study found that reducing the time to deliver LBPs to patients is more crucial than stockpiling them for mass casualty events.

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