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Abstract
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The Easter Sunday Attack Research Consortium (ESARC) team represents a multidisciplinary and multinational expert forum with the aim to analyze and learn from the 2019 Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka [ 1
]. We read the recent publication "Planning for UK Terror Attack" by Colin Brewster and coauthors with great excitement [ 2
]. This novel article attempts to quantify the experience of war related blast injury and extrapolating to resources required for future terrorist related blast injury. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham Role 4 experience hoists it to a high status in learning from mass casualty incidents (MCI), adding to it is the current experience cumulating 153 military blast and gunshot injuries during the calendar year 2012. Their focused emphasis in this article was surgical resource allocation in a role 4 facility, highlighted the pivotal role played by orthopedic and plastic specialties quoting 59% and 71% involvement in post blast surgical workload. They further quoted the NICE and BOAST4 guidelines promoting orthoplastic collaborations in staffing and planning in future events. Also, they guide the reader's attention to the fact that missing data of severely injured trauma victim treated at Role 3 facility at Camp Bastion as the course for underrepresentation of general surgical workload in this communication [ 2
]. The authors repeatedly highlight the dearth of high-quality communication and collective effort towards continuous learning from these random events. Further they pointed towards a lack of national database for major incidents, quoting an editorial by Sophie Hardy in 2015 titled "Major incidents in England- Why aren't we learning from them"...
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