In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Apparently some EMS people in Boston took that to heart. Which is why the death toll at the Marathon bombing in April wasn’t higher. Given that the Boston Marathon is an extremely high profile event with the potential for a lot of medical incidents, there were a lot of EMS units and personnel in the area. Some people would call that luck, I’d call it realizing that this was not only a sporting event, but a target and planning accordingly. If you plan and train enough, when something goes wrong, you have the ability to react and respond.

Eisenhower would not only understand, but he’d appreciate the effort and response.

18 minutes to clear over 100 patients from the scene of a bomb attack. That my friends is training and planning paying off.

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