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Adam P, Clavert P. Recent progress in limb traumatology. Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2022; 108:103371. [PMID: 35870772 DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2022.103371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Philippe Adam
- Équipe 12 matériaux multi-échelles et biomécanique, laboratoire iCube, CNRS UMR 7357, 2-4, rue Boussingault, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Pôle LOCOMAX, hôpital Hautepierre 2, 1, avenue Molière, 67098 Strasbourg, France.
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- Équipe 12 matériaux multi-échelles et biomécanique, laboratoire iCube, CNRS UMR 7357, 2-4, rue Boussingault, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Faculté de médecine, institut d'anatomie normale, 4, rue Kirschleger, 67085 Strasbourg, France; Pôle LOCOMAX, hôpital Hautepierre 2, 1, avenue Molière, 67098 Strasbourg, France
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Terrorist Attacks Against Performing Arts Venues: Global Trends and Characteristics Spanning 50 Years. Prehosp Disaster Med 2022; 37:593-599. [PMID: 35942627 PMCID: PMC9474675 DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x22001145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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INTRODUCTION In fostering community and culture through entertainment in shared spaces, performing arts venues have also become targets of terrorism. A greater understanding of these attacks is needed to assess the risk posed to different types of venues, to inform medical disaster preparedness, to anticipate injury patterns, and to reduce preventable deaths. METHODS A search of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) was conducted from the year 1970 through 2019. Using pre-coded variables for target/victim type and target subtype, attacks involving "business" and "entertainment/cultural/stadium/casino" were identified. Attacks targeting performing arts venues were selected using the search terms "theater," "theatre," "auditorium," "center," "hall," "house," "concert," "music," "opera," "cinema," and "movie." Manual review by two authors was performed to confirm appropriateness for inclusion of entries involving venues where the primary focus of the audience was to view a performance. Descriptive statistics were performed using R (version 3.6.1). RESULTS A total of 312 terrorist attacks targeting performing arts venues were identified from January 1, 1970 through December 31, 2019. Two-hundred nine (67.0%) attacks involved cinemas or movie theaters, 80 (25.6%) involved unspecified theaters, and 23 (7.4%) specifically targeted live music performance venues. Two-hundred thirty-four (75.0%) attacks involved a bombing or explosion, 50 (16.0%) damaged a facility or infrastructure, and 17 (5.4%) included armed assault. Perpetrators used explosives in 234 (75.0%) attacks, incendiary weapons in 50 (16.0%) attacks, and firearms in 19 (6.1%) attacks. In total, attacks claimed the lives of 1,307 and wounded 4,201 persons. Though fewer in number, attacks against music venues were responsible for 29.4% of fatalities and 35.0% of those wounded, and more frequently involved the use of firearms. Among 95 attacks falling within the highest quartile for victims killed or wounded (>two killed and/or >ten wounded), 83 (87.4%) involved explosives, seven (7.4%) involved firearms, and three (3.2%) involved incendiary methods. CONCLUSION While uncommon, terrorist attacks against performing arts venues carry the risk for mass casualties, particularly when explosives and firearms are used.
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Choufani C, Barbier O, Mathieu L, de L'Escalopier N. Military Orthopedic Surgeons Are Not Just Traumatologists. Mil Med 2021; 187:1376-1380. [PMID: 34591093 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usab400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Each French military orthopedic surgeon is both an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon. Their mission is to support the armed forces in France and on deployment. The aim of this study was to describe the type of orthopedic surgery performed for the armed forces in France. Our hypothesis was that scheduled surgery was more common than trauma surgery. METHODS We conducted a retrospective descriptive analysis of the surgical activity for military patients in the orthopedic surgery departments of the four French military platform hospitals. All surgical procedures performed during 2020 were collected. We divided the procedures into the following categories: heavy and light trauma, posttraumatic reconstruction surgery, sports surgery, degenerative surgery, and specialized surgery. Our primary endpoint was the number of procedures performed per category. RESULTS A total of 827 individuals underwent surgery, 91 of whom (11%) were medical returnees from deployment. The surgeries performed for the remaining 736 soldiers present in metropolitan France (89%) consisted of 181 (24.6%) trauma procedures (of which 86.7% were light trauma) and 555 (75.4%) scheduled surgery procedures (of which 60.8% were sports surgery). Among the medical returnees, there were 71 traumatology procedures (78%, of which 87.3% were light traumatology) and 20 procedures corresponding to surgery usually carried out on a scheduled basis (22%, of which 95% were sports surgery). CONCLUSION Military orthopedic surgeons are not just traumatologists; their activity for the armed forces is varied and mainly consists of so-called programmed interventions.
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- Camille Choufani
- Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Saint-Anne Military Teaching Hospital, Toulon 83000, France
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- Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Saint-Anne Military Teaching Hospital, Toulon 83000, France.,French Military Health Service Academy, Ecole du Val-de-Grâce, Paris 75005, France
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- French Military Health Service Academy, Ecole du Val-de-Grâce, Paris 75005, France.,Clinic of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, Percy Military Teaching Hospital, Clamart 92140, France
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- Clinic of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, Percy Military Teaching Hospital, Clamart 92140, France
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The Las Vegas mass shooting: An analysis of blood component administration and blood bank donations. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2020; 86:128-133. [PMID: 30371625 DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000002089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history occurred on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, killing 58 and overwhelming hospitals with more than 600 injured. The scope of the tragedy offers insight into medical demands, which may help guide preparedness for future mass shooting incidents. METHODS Retrospective, deidentified, health care institution-provided data from all hospitals and blood banks providing care to Las Vegas shooting victims were gathered. Study authors independently reviewed all data and cross-referenced it for verification. Main outcomes and measures include the number of victims requiring hospital and intensive care admission, the amount and types of blood components transfused during the first 24 hours, and the amount of blood donated to local blood banks following the Las Vegas mass shooting. RESULTS Two hundred twenty patients required hospital admission, 68 of them to critical care. Nearly 500 blood components were transfused during the first 24 hours in a red blood cell-to-plasma-to-platelet ratio of 1:0.54:0.81. Public citizens donated almost 800 units of blood immediately after the shooting; greater than 17% of this donated blood went unused. CONCLUSIONS The amount of blood components transfused per patient admitted was similar in magnitude to other mass casualty events, and available blood supply met patient demand. The public call for blood donors was not necessary to meet immediate demand and led to resource waste. Preparation for future mass shooting incidents should include training the community in hemorrhage control, encouraging routine blood donation, and avoiding public calls for blood donation unless approved by local blood suppliers. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Therapeutic study, level V.
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Swiech A, de Rocquigny G, Martinez T, Loarer G, Vico S, Planchon J, Le Goff A, Bertho K, Derkenne C, Travers S, Malgras B, Martinaud C, Carfantan C, Gaudry S, Boutonnet M, Pasquier P. Terrorist threat: Creating a nationwide damage control training program for non-trauma care providers. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med 2019; 39:59-64. [PMID: 31614243 DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2019.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The current terrorist threat challenges nations to train numerous non-trauma care providers with different backgrounds in damage control (DC) strategies. The purpose of this work was to propose a specific DC training program. METHODS A Task Force of 16 civilian and military physicians met for a 24-hour session, to propose the construction of a DC training program for non-specialised caregivers. RESULTS Existing DC training programs are heterogeneous, mainly theoretical and almost only for physicians. A program entitled Damage Control for Terrorist Attack Victims (DC-TAV) was then proposed. Identified training targets were care providers from prehospital and hospital staffs, with no experience in trauma care. The training objectives were the improvement of individual and collective skills in managing terrorist attacks casualties. The tools selected for training concerned e-learning on a dedicated digital teaching platform (including a core section of four modules with types and mechanisms of injury, basic DC techniques, triage, organisation of emergency medical response and two complementary modules for doctors with DC resuscitation including remote transfusion and DC surgery), hands-on workshops with procedural simulation and full-scale simulation exercises, technical (tourniquets, haemostatic gauzes, needle thoracostomy, chest tube drainage, management of airway, coniotomy) and non-technical (leadership, communication, coordination and triage, decision-making, appropriate use of resources) skills. Finally, an evaluation of the DC-TAV program was planned. CONCLUSIONS The DC-TAV program is an ambitious, civilian-military, nationwide and long-term program, based on a harmonised standard of care and including multidimensional training. Further studies are required to assess its efficacy.
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- Astrée Swiech
- Fédération d'anesthésie-réanimation-brûlés-bloc opératoire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 101, avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France.
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- Fédération d'anesthésie-réanimation-brûlés-bloc opératoire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 101, avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France; École du Val-de-Grâce, 75005 Paris, France.
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- Fédération d'anesthésie-réanimation-brûlés-bloc opératoire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 101, avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France.
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- Direction centrale du service de santé des armées, Paris, France.
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- Hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte-Anne, Toulon, France.
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- Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin, Saint-Mandé, France.
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- Brigade des sapeurs pompiers de Paris, Paris, France.
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- École du Val-de-Grâce, 75005 Paris, France; 12°, antenne médicale, Villacoublay, France.
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- École du Val-de-Grâce, 75005 Paris, France; Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin, Saint-Mandé, France.
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- École du Val-de-Grâce, 75005 Paris, France; Centre de transfusion sanguine des armées, Clamart, France.
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- Fédération d'anesthésie-réanimation-brûlés-bloc opératoire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 101, avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France.
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- Fédération d'anesthésie-réanimation-brûlés-bloc opératoire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 101, avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France; École du Val-de-Grâce, 75005 Paris, France.
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Cohn CS, Allen ES, Cushing MM, Dunbar NM, Friedman DF, Goel R, Harm SK, Heddle N, Hopkins CK, Klapper E, Perumbeti A, Ramsey G, Raval JS, Schwartz J, Shaz BH, Spinella PC, Pagano MB. Critical developments of 2018: A review of the literature from selected topics in transfusion. A committee report from the AABB's Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee. Transfusion 2019; 59:2733-2748. [PMID: 31148175 DOI: 10.1111/trf.15348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND The AABB compiles an annual synopsis of the published literature covering important developments in the field of transfusion medicine. An abridged version of this work is being made available in TRANSFUSION, with the full-length report available as Appendix S1 (available as supporting information in the online version of this paper). STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Papers published in late 2017 and 2018 are included, as well as earlier papers cited for background. Although this synopsis is comprehensive, it is not exhaustive, and some papers may have been excluded or missed. RESULTS The following topics are covered: "big data" and "omics" studies, emerging infections and testing, platelet transfusion and pathogen reduction, transfusion therapy and coagulation, transfusion approach to hemorrhagic shock and mass casualties, therapeutic apheresis, and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. CONCLUSION This synopsis may be a useful educational tool.
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- Claudia S Cohn
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, California
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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- Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Department, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Transfusion Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.,Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, Springfield, Illinois
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- University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
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- McMaster Center for Transfusion Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, and, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- Transfusion Medicine Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Franke A, Bieler D, Friemert B, Kollig E, Flohe S. [Preclinical and intrahospital management of mass casualties and terrorist incidents]. Chirurg 2019; 88:830-840. [PMID: 29149359 DOI: 10.1007/s00104-017-0489-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Due to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, Ansbach, Munich, Berlin and more recently Manchester and London, terrorism is realized as a present threat to our society and social life, as well as a challenge for the health care system. Without fueling anxiety, there is a need for sensitization to this subject and to familiarize all concerned with the special kind of terrorist attack-related injuries, the operational priorities and tactics and the individual basic principles of preclinical and hospital care. There is a need to adapt the known established medical structure for a conventional mass casualty situation to the special requirements that are raised by this new kind of terrorist threat to our social life. It is the aim of this article, from a surgical point of view, to depict the tactics and challenges of preclinical care of the special kind of terrorist attack-related injuries from the site of the incident, via the advanced medical post or casualty collecting point, to the triage point at the hospital. The special needs of medical care and organizational aspects of the primary treatment in the hospital are highlighted and possible decisional options and different approaches are discussed.
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- A Franke
- Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie, Rekonstruktive- und Handchirurgie, Verbrennungsmedizin, Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, Rübenacherstrasse 170, 56072, Koblenz, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie, Rekonstruktive- und Handchirurgie, Verbrennungsmedizin, Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, Rübenacherstrasse 170, 56072, Koblenz, Deutschland.
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- Klinik Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie, Septische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie, Sporttraumatologie, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm, Ulm, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie, Rekonstruktive- und Handchirurgie, Verbrennungsmedizin, Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, Rübenacherstrasse 170, 56072, Koblenz, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Handchirurgie, Städt. Klinikum Solingen, Solingen, Deutschland
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