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Terror attacks place London hospitals on alert

Quality Improvement Monitor, July 7, 2005

A series of coordinated terrorist attacks on London's public transportation system July 7 highlighted the need to prepare for an influx of patients during a disaster.

Hospital officials told The Associated Press that about 360 people were treated by 5:30 p.m. local time for injuries after the explosions on trains near three London Underground subway stations and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour. Hospitals were anticipating more patients to arrive throughout the day.

Preliminary reports from London Hospital officials were that 95 injured patients had been brought to that facility alone soon after the blasts, the AP reported. Ten of those patients required "immediate surgery," CNN reported.

St. Mary's Hospital was placed on "major incident alert," a spokesperson told CNN, and some of the city's double-decker buses helped transport patients to local hospitals, the news network reported.

Emergency crews also set up a triage and treatment station at a hotel near the Edgware Road station, site of one of the attacks, the AP reported.

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