Attacks provide first major test of USA's national antiterrorist medical response plan.

Focuses on the role of the United States antiterrorist medical response plans in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. which occurred on September 11, 2001. Preparations made by New York City hospitals to receive thousands of victims from the collapsed World Trade Center; Deployment of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT) and Disaster Mortuary Operation Response Teams (DMORT) in the first nationwide activation of the National Disaster Medical System.