ABSTRACT
On June 15, 2011 a public disturbance broke out in down-town Vancouver, British Columbia, immediately following the seventh game loss of the Vancouver Canucks to the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League Stanley Cup play-offs. Almost 9 million people in Canada watched the Stanley Cup final, making it one of the most viewed hockey games in the country, second only to the 2010 Olympic Gold Medal men’s hockey game between Canada and the United States. Several reviews have been conducted (two internal (City of Vancouver, 2011; Vancouver Police Department, 2011), and one external (Furlong and Keefe, 2011) to query how the riot happened, and how the police responded. In this chapter I review the response of the local hospital emergency department (ED) to the sudden surge of riot-related patients, and offer some observations about resilient system performance.
