Progress in disaster medical rescue for blast injury / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Disastrous blast injury is a rare type injury, but an increasing incidence happened worldwide due to various reasons, often causing mass casualties incidents (MCIs). However, most clinicians have no treatment experience in managing blast injury. The present paper introduces the classification and severity prediction, as well as systematically describes medical rescue strategies for blast injuries, including on-site triage and in-hospital trauma emergency treatments such as trauma emergency care, and emergency care for lung and gastrointestinal tract blast injuries.