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- Title
Not a Blunt Issue, but Penetrating--An Israeli Experience with Abdominal Injury in Civilian Multiple Casualty Blast Incidents.
- Authors
Goldstein, Adam Lee; Klausner, Joseph M.; Soffer, Dror
- Abstract
This article discusses a study which described the injury profile of patients needing emergent exploratory laparotomies for intra-abdominal trauma after multiple casualty incidents. Researchers examined the medical and surgical operation records of the studied population. They learned that the majority of abdominal visceral injuries after an MCI resulting from a blast were penetrating in nature and the result of shrapnel or debris in contrast to injuries associated with blast or blunt kinetics.
- Subjects
LAPAROSTOMY; ABDOMINAL surgery; TRAUMATOLOGY; MASS casualties; OPERATIVE surgery; MEDICAL records
- Publication
American Surgeon, 2014, Vol 80, Issue 1, p98
- ISSN
0003-1348
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000313481408000135