explosion and blast injuries - georgia poison center · bomb size & weight explosive choice...
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EXPLOSION AND BLAST INJURIESMechanisms of Injury
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Outline
• Injury definitions• Bomb‐Injury threat model• Agent• Host• Environment• Specific examples• Review
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• Video clip TNT
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Injury definitions
• Primary: blast wave
• Secondary: projectile fragments
• Tertiary: contact with objects (blunt)
• Quaternary: burns and toxins
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Bomb Size & weight
Explosive choicePurpose & SourceDelivery system
AdulterantsTactic
Human Age, sex, & weight
Fitness, PPENutrition, health
Access to care
Open Space, Confined Space,Structural Collapse
Reflecting or Shielding surfacesBuilding and non-structural debris
Air and liquid hazards
Bomb‐Injury Threat Model
Lee-Davis
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Agent
500lbs bomb rigged as IED
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Anti‐Tank Mine encased in concrete and command detonated via remote control
Artillery shells rigged as IEDs
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Explosives
• Chemical compound that is able to release stored energy in the form of rapidly expanding gases– High Order Explosives (HE)
• TNT, ammonium nitrate fuel oil, C‐4• Blast wave• Primary blast injury
– Low Order Explosive (LE)• Propellants (black powder, pyrotechnics)• No blast wave• Rare primary blast injury
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High explosives
• Stored energy is released rapidly• Detonation• Examples: TNT and dynamite
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PRESSURE
TIME(microseconds)
PEAK OVERPRESSURE
POSITIVE PHASE OVERPRESSURE DURATION
0 ATMZeroAtmosphere Pressure
Horrocks, CL. Blast Injuries: Biophysics, Pathophysiology and Mnaagement Principles.
Idealized blast overpressure waveformseen only in high‐order explosives (HE)
NEGATIVE PHASE
VACUUMZero ATM
Detonation
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• Nuclear video
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Low explosives
• Stored energy is released slowly• Combustion or deflagration• Examples: gun powder, fuel• No blast wave or overpressurization• Injury results from:
– Thermal burns, – Ballistic (shrapnel)– Suffocation (fumes and toxins)
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Host
• Age• Sex• Height• Medical history• Access to care
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Environment
• Open space• Enclosed or confined space• Structural collapse• Underwater
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Open space
• Potential for shrapnel to travel a large distance (>100 m)
• Less primary blast injuries
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Enclosed space
• Increased mortality• Increased blast pressure• Complicated rescue
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Structural collapse
• Increased mortality from primary blast wave as well as from tertiary and quaternary injuries
• Crush syndrome
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Who is this?
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Where is this?
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High explosives
• Stored energy is released rapidly• Detonation• Examples: TNT and dynamite, and ANFO!
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Review
• Blasts occur from various causes, including intentional causes
• High explosives detonate• Low explosives combust or deflagrate
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Review
• High explosive blasts cause a supersonic blast wave, which is a pressure wave that travels ahead of the other effects (heat and fragments) and causes PRIMARY blast injury.
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Review
• Both High and low order explosions cause fragmentation and penetrating injury, known as SECONDARY injury
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Review
• Both high and low order explosions can throw people into objects, throw objects into people, or cause structural collapse, causing TERTIARY injury
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Review
• Explosions cause heat injury (burns) and create toxic products (carbon monoxide, cyanide, etc) that cause QUATERNARY injury
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Review
• The pattern of injury is predictable given knowledge of:– Agent– Host– Environment
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