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Medical planning for 2024 Republican convention
Health and Medical Preparedness and Response to the 2024 Republican National Convention
Prehospital Emergency Care · Added 15 May 2026
This case report describes comprehensive health and medical planning and multi-agency response for a large-scale national political convention, providing a template for mass gathering EMS preparedness.
- Study type
- Case series
- Design
- Observational case report of EMS records and event planning documents
- Participants
- Not reported (event attended by ~50,000 people)
- Main finding
- No mass casualty incidents, mass arrests, public health emergencies or staffing crises; low patient presentation rates and on-scene prehospital care minimised impact on local health systems.
- Caveat
- Single US mass-gathering event; descriptive
- Bottom line
- Context only
Learning goal
Understand how multi-agency planning shapes prehospital care at large-scale mass gathering events.
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- Topic: Operations & systems
- Daily scan: 15 May 2026
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