Book Review

This is another book with an American favour and as the title suggests, focuses on what are called Hospital Emergency Response Teams. These are teams which are called upon in-hospital when the aid facility is faced with a crisis situation.

The definition of a ‘crisis’ offered is any incident which ‘taxes the system’.

If this is anything similar to the over-worked A and E departments in the UK, then the deployment of these teams should be a routine scenario!

In reality, this is another text which concerns the management and treatment of mass casualties. But this is not new territory and I struggled to see how this text offers anything new to the plethora of books already available on the subject.

The pedigree of the authors is beyond question, with a wealth of experience spanning the medical profession, police and fre services. A military influence is also detectable.

‘This is another text which concerns the management and treatment of mass casualties’