ReviewCurrent trauma reports2018
Natural Disasters and Injuries: What Does a Surgeon Need to Know?
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Health System Response to the 2023 Floods in Emilia-Romagna, Italy: A Field Report.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2023Review
- Which is more dangerous, earthquake, or the panic?Evaluation of the 24 January 2020 Elazig/Türkiye earthquake related musculoskeletal injuries.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2022Article
- Orthopaedic trauma epidemiology after Hurricane Maria in the Puerto Rico Trauma Centre.International orthopaedics · 2022Article
- Decontamination of Surgical Instruments for Safe Wound Care Surgeries in Disasters: What are the Options? A Scoping Review.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2021Article
- Modification of the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the 5-HTTLPR polymorphisms after Lorca's earthquakes (Murcia, Spain).Psychiatry research · 2019Article
- Association of 5-HTTLPR With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in US Service Members.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
- Effect of Educational Program on Knowledge, Skills, and Personal Preparedness for Disasters Among Emergency Nurses: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
purpose of reviewNatural disasters have injured more than 2 million people in the last 10 years and led to significant international medical relief deployment. Knowledge of expected injury patterns following these disasters is an important part of planning for type and size of outside surgical assistance. This review aims to summarize what is known about injury patterns following natural sudden-onset disasters (SODs). RECENT
findingsSeveral systematic reviews have concluded that data on injury patterns and surgical needs following natural SODs is scarce. Studies on earthquakes indicate that earthquakes generate large numbers of injured, out of which limb injuries are most common. Tsunamis, floods, storms, and wildfires do not generate a significant burden of injuries in relation to numbers affected. SUMMARY: Earthquake may require surgical assistance, especially for limb injuries; therefore, mainly orthopedic and plastic surgeries are priority specialist areas. Major injuries seem to be few in other natural disasters. However, more detailed data is needed on specific injury patterns to determine if additional surgical assistance is needed and to what extent it is needed to cater for normal surgical conditions if existing health care has seized to function.
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