Inside the operating room, the overhead alarm repeatedly announced, “Active Shooter–Shelter
in Place.” It was a Thursday morning, 1 hour into a robotic partial nephrectomy for
a patient with a renal cell carcinoma. The patient was stable, and surgery had progressed
to a point where aborting the case was safe. We locked the operating room doors and
covered the windows. A call to hospital security confirmed that this was not a drill
and that the shooter was in a building adjacent to the hospital where the procedure
was taking place. Our operating room team then had to decide what to do next.
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Published online: October 09, 2019
Accepted:
August 17,
2019
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