Blast Injury Fact Sheets
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Mass Casualties
- Blast Injuries: Information for Professionals
- Explosions and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Clinicians
- Bombings: Injury Patterns and Care
- Blast Injury Fact Sheets
- Predicting Casualty Severity and Hospital Capacity
- In a Moment's Notice: Surge Capacity in Terrorist Bombings
- TIIDE Project
- Model Communities
In an instant, an explosion or blast can wreck havoc; producing numerous casualties with complex, technically challenging injuries not commonly seen after natural disasters such as floods or hurricanes.
To address this issue, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with partners from the Terrorism Injuries Information, Dissemination and Exchange (TIIDE) Project, as well as other experts in the field, have developed fact sheets for health care providers that provide detailed information on the treatment of blast injuries.
- Blast Injuries: Essential Facts
- Abdominal Blast Injuries
- Blast Extremity Injuries
- Ear Blast Injuries
- Eye Blast Injuries
- Blast Lung Injury: Prehospital Care
- Blast Lung Injury
- Crush Injury and Crush Syndrome
- Bombings and Mental Health
These fact sheets address background, clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, management and disposition of blast injury topics. The fact sheets may be viewed and downloaded for use in the treatment of blast injury patients, in the training of clinical staff or to disseminate to others. These fact sheets will soon be available in Spanish, Chinese, and French. Additional fact sheet topics will be posted as they are developed.
Page last modified May 12, 2008