Floor-by-floor breakdown of the injuries/deaths in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building from the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
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Emergency medicine, trauma surgery
A blast injury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion.[1] Blast injuries occur with the detonation of high-order explosives as well as the deflagration of low order explosives. These injuries are compounded when the explosion occurs in a confined space.
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A blastinjury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion. Blastinjuries occur with the detonation...
and sports injuries are other causes. Pulmonary contusion can also be caused by explosions; the organs most vulnerable to blastinjuries are those that...
Look up BLAST, blast, or -blast in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blast or The Blast may refer to: Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release...
in states that have stable rates of gunshot hospitalizations. Blastinjury, an injury that may present similar dangers to a gunshot wound. Bullet hit...
occur in urban areas and 80% of these deaths are caused by firearms. Blastinjury is a complex cause of trauma because it commonly includes both blunt...
offer much protection against the blast wave itself. The most recognized injury due to the blast wave is called “blast lung.” The lungs (and other internal...
uncontrolled decompression, or implosion. It is the most severe type of blastinjury. Gross dismemberment may also be caused by a fall at terminal velocity...
injury caused directly by the object that enters the body, penetrating injuries may be associated with secondary injuries, due for example to a blast...
induce different injury patterns. Only HE produce true blast waves. The classic flow solution—the so-called Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave solution—was...
charge. An unnamed person suffered "injuries typical of blastinjury, such as tympanic membrane rupture, globe injury, and severe burns" due to "close proximity...
pneumothorax can develop from physical trauma to the chest (including a blastinjury) or from a complication of a healthcare intervention. Diagnosis of a...
brain injury is defined as damage to the brain resulting from external mechanical force, such as rapid acceleration or deceleration, impact, blast waves...
[citation needed] Unintentional perforation (rupture) has been described in blastinjuries and air travel, typically in patients experiencing upper respiratory...
to the kidneys and can cause acute kidney injury. The muscle damage is most usually caused by a crush injury, strenuous exercise, medications, or a substance...
This combination of injuries has been given the name "Dismounted Complex BlastInjury" and is thought to be the worst survivable injury ever seen in war...
Matthew N.; Oghalai, John S. (2013). "Mechanisms of Hearing Loss after BlastInjury to the Ear". PLOS ONE. 8 (7): e67618. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...867618C. doi:10...
seeks to resolve nasal injuries caused by various traumas including blunt, and penetrating trauma and trauma caused by blastinjury. Reconstructive surgery...
Sandblasting, sometimes known as abrasive blasting, is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high...
traumatic injury. Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as direct, indirect, compression, contusion, deceleration, or blasts caused...
as pseudoscience. The FasciaBlaster is marketed as expected to cause bruising, and some users have reported various injuries in addition to bruising following...
behind a pane of window glass when the blast wave arrived, those in his company who were had serious blastinjury wounds, with broken glass and pieces of...
85. ISBN 9780292784642. Ketten, D. R.; Lien, J.; Todd, J. (1993). "Blastinjury in humpback whale ears: Evidence and implications". Journal of the Acoustical...
the Bluffing Blast" (1963). In "Hawkeye", an episode of M*A*S*H, Captain Hawkeye Pierce, M.D. diagnoses himself as having a contrecoup injury. In "Meld"...
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