Successful treatment of a severely injured victim from 8.12 Tianjin Port Explosion, China

A male patient, 55 years old, was found from a container yard 65 h later following a chemical warehouse explosion in Tianjin, China on August 12, 2015. He was about 50 m away from the explosion center. He was subjected to compound multiple trauma, multi-viscera function damage, multiple fractures. h...

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Published in:Chinese journal of traumatology 2015-12, Vol.18 (6), p.320-322
Main Authors: Zhang, Wen-Xu, Gao, Sheng-Ting, Zhang, Xiao-Ning, Zhen, Wei-Feng, Zhu, Yu, Wang, Na, Shi, Zhen-Hua, Guo, Ying, Ding, Dong-Rui, Meng, Xiang-Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blast Injuries - therapy
China
Disaster
Disaster victims
Explosions
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Multiple
Multiple trauma
Multiple Trauma - therapy
trauma
victims
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Summary:A male patient, 55 years old, was found from a container yard 65 h later following a chemical warehouse explosion in Tianjin, China on August 12, 2015. He was about 50 m away from the explosion center. He was subjected to compound multiple trauma, multi-viscera function damage, multiple fractures. hemothorax, traumatic wet lung. respiratory failure 1, hypovolemic shock and impaired liver and kidney functions. After a series of successful treatments, he was rescued and recovered well.
ISSN:1008-1275
DOI:10.1016/j.cjtee.2015.11.013