The spectrum of pediatric injuries after a bomb blast☆
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Medical Management at the Health Care Facility
2017, Annals of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Children are frequently victims in blast terrorist attacks. In the Oklahoma City bombing, which involved the child care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the children experienced a high incidence of traumatic amputation, fractures, and cranial injury.40 Experience in Israel has also shown that penetrating truncal injuries are common in children who are victims of vehicular bombings.41
Trauma care for children in the field
2014, Clinical Pediatric Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :The number of children per event can vary depending on the location, time of day, and type of event. In terrorist blast events on US soil, the number of children has ranged from 0 to 66.29,30 Although still rare, amateur firework–related blast injuries are more common in the United States than terrorist bombings.31-34
A modern analysis of a historical pediatric disaster: The 1927 Bath school bombing
2010, Journal of Surgical ResearchCitation Excerpt :Historical reviews of disasters are an important source of information for both designing emergency preparedness plans and determining the patterns of injury specific to children. Lessons learned from terrorist attacks around the world have given us a better understanding of the mechanisms and patterns of injury that may be unique to children [5]. An analysis of the Bath school bombings of 1927, the largest pediatric terrorist disaster in U.S. history, provides another opportunity to gain perspective on pediatric patterns of injury and future disaster preparedness.
Blast injuries
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2010, Ashcraft's Pediatric SurgeryPediatric Mass Casualty: Triage and Planning for the Prehospital Provider
2009, Clinical Pediatric Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Blast injury can be seen in certain MCEs. Injury patterns in children after a blast injury also differ from their adult counterparts and from nonblast pediatric injuries.16,17 These different injury patterns must be recognized by the prehospital provider because explosives remain a weapon of choice among terrorist organizations.
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Presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, San Diego, California, May 20–23, 1996.