Open AccessBOMB BLAST: PATTERN AND NATURE OF INJURIES
Author(s) -
Brahmaji Master P,
Chandra Sekhar,
Y K C Rangaiah
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of evidence based medicine and healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-2570
pISSN - 2349-2562
DOI - 10.18410/jebmh/2015/21
Subject(s) - medicine , aeronautics , engineering
Bomb blast cause injury on large groups of people by multiple mechanisms. Bomb blast injuries differ from the conventional description of trauma complexity. Primary injuries are caused by blast wave and over pressure. Secondary injuries are caused by flying debris and cause shrapnel wounds. Tertiary injuries are caused by blast wind due to forceful impact and quaternary injuries are caused by other vectors like heat, radiation etc. Combined injuries, especially blast and burn injury or blast and crush injury, are common during an explosive event. Knowledge about nature of injuries is essential for medicolegal and postmortem reports. Language: en
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