[Blast injury].

Willi Schmidbauer, Stefan Lenz, Florian Bubser, Thoralf Kerner

Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie · 2010-06-01 · Other / unclear

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Abstract

The blast injury is characterized by 3 different patterns of injury: blast wave, splintered fragments and displacement of victim's body. Severe external and internal hemorrhage, tension pneumothorax and the lethal trios (hypothermia, acidosis, coagulopathy) require a rapid prehospital and inhospital trauma care according to a standardized protocol. The concepts of damage control resuscitation and damage control surgery have proven to be effective and should be integrated into the treatment.