The Beirut Port explosion: injury trends from a mass survey of emergency admissions

Data received were anonymous, were for within54 h of the blast, and included the number of registered (or estimated) emergency department admissions, hospital admissions, surgeries done in the operating room, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and the number of fatalities at admission to emergenc...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 398; no. 10294; pp. 21 - 22
Main Authors:	Mansour, Hana A, Bitar, Eugenie, Fares, Youssef, Makdessi, Assad A, Maalouf, Antoine, Ghoul, Mahmoud El, Mansour, Mohamad A, Chami, Antoine, Khalil, Michel, Jalkh, Alex, Cherfan, Daniel, Fares, Jawad, Khuri, Fadlo R, Mansour, Ahmad M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Elsevier Ltd 03-07-2021 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Ammonium Ammonium nitrate Casualties Emergency medical care Emergency medical services Explosions Fatalities Health care facilities Hospitals Injuries Surgery Trauma Lebanon Beirut Lebanon
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Summary:	Data received were anonymous, were for within54 h of the blast, and included the number of registered (or estimated) emergency department admissions, hospital admissions, surgeries done in the operating room, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and the number of fatalities at admission to emergency department or during hospitalisation. The study received institutional review board approval in nine centres that supplied the data for admissions to hospital. 33 private medical institutions and nine public hospitals participated in the study (appendix), representing more than 95% of the workforce of operative hospitals in the studied region. 5591 emergency department admissions were registered in 35 hospitals, and 3052 emergency department admissions were estimated in seven hospitals, yielding a total of 8643 patients admitted to emergency departments in 42 hospitals. [...]we call for action so that the production, sales, transportation, and storage of ammonium nitrate come under the strict regulation and supervision of the UN.
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ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X
DOI:	10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01246-0