title: Elks Lodge building collapse.
abstract: Of the 50 patients we anticipated, we evaluated 14 victims, two firefighters and two people in the crowd who developed anxiety-related symptoms in reaction to the incident. Forty-eight people escaped the building in various ways, with the most amazing being when rubble created a hole in the wall that led to a stairwell where people were able to get out. We transported 11 patients to the local hospital, four were flown to trauma centers in Kansas City, and four refused to be transported. Of those four, one later went to the ED, where he was diagnosed as having an AMI and was flown to a cardiac center in Kansas City.
authors.affiliation: Golden Valley EMS, Clinton, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Casey
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Christy
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wade
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D008923:Missouri; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D018635:Rescue Work / Q000458:organization & administration*