Casualties from Terrorist Bombings
作者:
GRAHAM COOPER,
ROBERT MAYNARD,
NORMAN CROSS,
JAMES HILL,
期刊:
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
(OVID Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 11
页码: 955-967
ISSN:0022-5282
年代: 1983
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The physical factors responsible for injury following an explosion in a room or building are: direct exposure to overpressure; blast-induced whole body displacement; impact of blast-energized debris; burns from flash and hot gase. The patterns of injury seen in the casualties from four terrorist bombings are described to illustrate the types and severity of particular wounds. The most common fatal injury is brain damage; ‘blast lung’ is uncommon in civilian terrorist bombings; flash burns, fractures, serious soft-tissue damage, and eardrum injuries are seen in people close to the bomb, who usually require hospital admission; many others taken to hospital can be treated for injury by debris and released. The environment and its internal structure and the position of the occupants of the space can influence the type and severity of injuries.
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