Successful treatment of a severely injured victim from 8.12 Tianjin Port Explosion, China.
- Author:
Wen-Xu ZHANG
1
;
Sheng-Ting GAO
;
Xiao-Ning ZHANG
;
Wei-Feng ZHEN
;
Yu ZHU
;
Na WANG
;
Zhen-Hua SHI
;
Ying GUO
;
Dong-Rui DING
;
Xiang-Zhong MENG
Author Information
1. Intensive Care Unit, 254th Hospital of PLA, Tianjin 300142, China.
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH:
Blast Injuries;
therapy;
China;
Explosions;
Humans;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Multiple Trauma;
therapy
- From:
Chinese Journal of Traumatology
2015;18(6):320-322
- CountryChina
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
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 I, hypovolemic shock and impaired liver and kidney functions. After a series of successful treatments, he was rescued and recovered well.
