Chinese Journal of Traumatology 2015;18(6):320-322

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

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

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China

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.