Medical consequences of suicide bombing mass casualty incidents: The impact of explosion setting on injury patterns

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 698-702

  Kosashvili, Yona ^a,b   Loebenberg, Mark I ^b   Lin, Guy ^c   Peleg, Kobi ^d   Zvi, Feigenberg ^e   Kluger, Yoram ^f   Blumenfeld, Amir ^c  

^a Clinical Research Division   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Trauma Branch   (Israel)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^e Israeli EMS ^*  (Israel)

^f General Surgery B   (Israel)

Author keywords

Multiple casualty incidents; Settings; Suicide bombings; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEATH; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPLOSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL;

AMBULANCES; BLAST INJURIES; BOMBS; BURNS; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MOTOR VEHICLES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; SUICIDE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67349147511     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.06.037     Document Type: Article

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