Joint Committee to Create a National Policy to Enhance Survivability from Mass Casualty Shooting Events: Hartford Consensus II.

PREAMBLE The Joint Committee to Create a National Policy to Enhance Survivability from Mass Casualty Shooting Events was initiated by the American College of Surgeons in an effort to ensure that victims receive expeditious treatment of their injuries. The Committee included individuals from select public safety organizations including health, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, law enforcement, fire, prehospital care, trauma care, and the military. They met in Hartford, Connecticut on April 2, 2013 and on July 11, 2013. Attendance at the second meeting was broadened to include representatives from the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency and theNational Security Staff of the Office of the President. These meetings became known as Hartford Consensus I and Hartford Consensus II. The concepts put forth and supported by both meetings are referred to as the Hartford Consensus. The Hartford Consensus II Statement is a call to action–no one should die from uncontrolled hemorrhage.