A multicasualty event: out-of-hospital and in-hospital organizational aspects.

Unlabelled: In a wedding celebration of 700 participants, the third floor of the hall in which the celebration was taking place suddenly collapsed. While the walls remained intact, all three floors of the building collapsed, causing Israel's largest disaster.

Objectives: To study the management of a multicasualty event (MCE), in the out-of-hospital and in-hospital phases, including rescue, emergency medical services (EMS) deployment and evacuation of casualties, emergency department (ED) deployment, recalling staff, medical care, imaging procedures, hospitalization, secondary referral, and interhospital transfer of patients.