Terrorist attack in Nice: the central role of a children's hospital

The other trauma centre, Pasteur Hospital for adults, is located further away from the attack site.1 Fortunately, Lenval Children's Hospital had received reinforced training to face mass casualty incidents because the European Football Championship had taken place in Nice a few months earlier. Stress disorder and dissociative symptomatology were observed--more prominently in adults than in children--and resulted in two transfers to the psychiatric emergency department at Pasteur Hospital and in disorganisation and sick leave for affected hospital staff.