Injuries blast

In the United States, most of the studies on blast injuries to all types of mammals, including humans, have been done by the staff of the Lovelace Foundation. Their work is summarized in Refs. 43-45, and criteria given for primary air blast lethality levels for humans,... 

Table 3.5 summarizes the effects of explosion overpressure on structures. With respect to human casualties, heavy building damage usually is equated to a fatal effect, as the people inside the buildings probably would be crushed. People outside of buildings or structures are susceptible to direct blast injury (blast overpressure) and indirect blast injury (missiles or whole body translation). 

Chaloner, E. (2005). Blast injury in enclosed spaces [Editorial]. British MedicalJournal, 331, 119-120. 

Blast injuries/dealing with tissue loss... 

Source This information is compiled from Centers tor Disease Control and Prevention. (2005). Explosions and blast injuries A primer for clinicians. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved June 16, 2006, from http //www.bt.cdc.gov/masstrauma/explosions.asp and Linsky, R., Miller, A (2005). Types of explosions and explosive injuries defined. In D. C. Keyes, J. L Burstein, R. B. Schwartz, and R. E. Swienton (Eds.), Medical response to terrorism Preparedness and clinical practice (pp. 198-211). New York Lippincott, Williams Wilkins. 

All injuries that are the result of an explosion are categorized as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary blast injuries. Casualties with primary blast injuries are a direct result of the blast wave from HEs. The... 

Penetrating and blunt traumatic injuries that occur as the result of an explosion are similar to those associated with other mechanisms of injury. Primary blast injuries present unique situations and affect selected body systems. Every body system may be affected following an explosion and subsequent blast wave, the associated injuries and their care are discussed in a head-to-toe manner. 

Victims of blast injuries may also require psychosocial evaluation and treatment, as discussed in... 

Discuss the primary blast injuries in relation to body systems. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2005c). Explosions and blast injuries A primer for clinicians. Retrieved June 16, 2006, from http //www.bt.cdc.gov/masstrauma/ explosions.asp... 

Leibovici, D., Gofrit, O. N., Shapira, S. C. (1999). Eardrum perforation in explosion survivors Is it a maker of pulmonary blast injury Annals of Emergency Medicine, 34, 168-172. 

Wightman, J. M., Gladish, S. L. (2001). Explosions and blast injuries. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 37, 664-678. 

Clinically observed effects The number of people who suffered clinically observed health effects individually attributable to radiation exposure due to the Chernobyl accident was relatively modest, given the accident s dimensions. A total of 237 persons, all of them workers dealing with the accident, were suspected of suffering clinical syndromes of radiation exposure and were hospitalized, and 134 of them were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome. Of these, 28 died of the consequences of radiation injuries (three other persons died at the time of the accident two due to non-radiation blast injuries and one due to a coronary thrombosis). Some years after the accident, 14 additional persons in this group died however, their deaths were found to be not necessarily attributable to radiation exposure. 

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