title: Civilian preparedness and counter-terrorism: conventional weapons.
abstract: Most terrorist attacks involve conventional weapons. These explosive devices produce injury patterns that are sometimes predict-able. The chaos produced from these weapons can be greatly reduced with prior planning, response practice, and realization by the entire medical community of the need to participate in preparation for these devastating events.
authors.affiliation: Emergency and Operational Medicine, Building 2, Room 1B09, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC 20307, USA. edward.lucci@na.amedd.army.mil
authors.forename: Edward B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Lucci
mesh_terms: D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005107:Explosions; D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D023481:Terrorism; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014218:Triage; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000601:surgery*