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Terrorist bombing
Bombings and explosion incidents directed against innocent civilians are the primary instrument of global terror. In the present review we highlight the major observations and lessons learned from these events. Five mechanisms of blast injury are outlined and the different type of injury that they c...
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1675994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17101058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-33 |
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description | Bombings and explosion incidents directed against innocent civilians are the primary instrument of global terror. In the present review we highlight the major observations and lessons learned from these events. Five mechanisms of blast injury are outlined and the different type of injury that they cause is described. Indeed, the consequences of terror bombings differ from those of non-terrorism trauma in severity and complexity of injury, and constitute a new class of casualties that differ from those of conventional trauma. The clinical implications of terror bombing, in treatment dilemmas in the multidimensional injury, ancillary evaluation and handling of terror bombing mass casualty event are highlighted. All this leads to the conclusion that thorough medical preparedness to cope with this new epidemic is required, and that understanding of detonation and blast dynamics and how they correlate with the injury patterns is pivotal for revision of current mass casualty protocols. |
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spelling | pubmed-16759942006-12-01 Terrorist bombing Mayo, Ami Kluger, Yoram World J Emerg Surg Review Bombings and explosion incidents directed against innocent civilians are the primary instrument of global terror. In the present review we highlight the major observations and lessons learned from these events. Five mechanisms of blast injury are outlined and the different type of injury that they cause is described. Indeed, the consequences of terror bombings differ from those of non-terrorism trauma in severity and complexity of injury, and constitute a new class of casualties that differ from those of conventional trauma. The clinical implications of terror bombing, in treatment dilemmas in the multidimensional injury, ancillary evaluation and handling of terror bombing mass casualty event are highlighted. All this leads to the conclusion that thorough medical preparedness to cope with this new epidemic is required, and that understanding of detonation and blast dynamics and how they correlate with the injury patterns is pivotal for revision of current mass casualty protocols. BioMed Central 2006-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1675994/ /pubmed/17101058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-33 Text en Copyright © 2006 Mayo and Kluger; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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title | Terrorist bombing |
title_full | Terrorist bombing |
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title_short | Terrorist bombing |
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topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1675994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17101058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-33 |
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