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Common Wounding Mechanisms and Injury Patterns

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Terrorist attacks, as a mechanism of injury, continue to be a worldwide challenge to trauma centers, resulting in tremendous and varied injury patterns often in large numbers of victims. While terrorists may use many different approaches to inflict injury, explosive devices, often homemade, have continued to be the prime weaponry for terror-related events. These attacks create mass-casualty emergencies and trigger unique pattern of injuries which require a detailed understanding by the treatment team in order to provide optimal care. Other commonly used injury mechanisms include gunshots and knives. Finally, blunt trauma in terror-related MCI may be caused by stoning and intentional road accidents (car ramming).

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    Miklosh Bala

  2. Assia Medical Group, Tel Aviv University-Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Jeffry Kashuk

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  3. Emergency Surgery Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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Bala, M., Kashuk, J. (2020). Common Wounding Mechanisms and Injury Patterns. In: Kluger, Y., Coccolini, F., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L. (eds) WSES Handbook of Mass Casualties Incidents Management. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92345-1_3

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