Mass Casualty Event Preparedness and Response

Information for the General Public

• Preparing for a Terrorist Bombing
• Coping With a Traumatic Event
• Emergency Wound Care

• Injuries
• Brain Injuries
• Burns

Information for Professionals

• Public Health Professionals & Clinicians
• Blast Injury Fact Sheets
  NEW! May 12, 2008
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Providers

• Media & Communication Professionals: Suicide Bombs
• Surge Capacity in the Health Care System

Related Resources

• Related Links
• CDC's Injury Center Website
  Non-emergency injury & violence information

• State & Local Health Departments

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Contact CDC

• Main CDC Contact Center
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  (800-232-4636)
  888-232-6348 (TTY)
• Report an Emergency
  
• National Center for Injury Prevention & Control
  Mailstop K65
  4770 Buford Highway NE
  Atlanta, GA 30341-3724
  Phone: 770-488-1506
  Fax: 770-488-1667
  E-mail: OHCINFO@cdc.gov

News & Highlights

• For public review: Postexposure interventions to prevent HBV, HCV, HIV, & tetanus after mass casualty events
• Course: "Bombings: Injury Patterns & Care"
• Terrorism Injuries Information, Dissemination & Exchange Project
• Model Communities Initiative
• School violence
• Video Webcast With Slide Presentations: "Surviving Field Stress for First Responders"