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Operational and Medical Management of Explosive and Blast Incidents

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Editors:
  1. David W. Callaway

    1. Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, USA

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  2. Jonathan L. Burstein

    1. Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA

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  • Discusses medical treatment of a variety of injuries from pre-hospital care to the emergency department and ICU

  • Provides real-life case studies from recent blast incidents

  • Covers post-hospital considerations such as rehabilitation, mental health, and community resilience

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Overview of Blast Injury

      • Scott D. Deitchman, Isaac Ashkenazi, Henry Falk
      Pages 5-18

    3. Blast Physics and Biophysics

      • Charles E. Needham, Leanne R. Young, Howard R. Champion
      Pages 19-33

    4. State of the Science: Blast Injury Pathophysiology

      • Leanne R. Young, Geoffrey Ling, Tim Walilko, Greg T. Rule, Howard R. Champion
      Pages 35-49

    5. Operational Considerations: Review of Contemporary Data

      • Kobi Peleg, Moran Bodas, Michael Rozenfeld
      Pages 51-65

    6. Civilian Hospital and Healthcare System Preparedness (Location, Preparedness, Epidemiology Review of Data)

      • Paul Biddinger, Sarita Chung
      Pages 67-83

    7. Military Trauma System Response to Blast MCI

      • Robert W. DesPain, William J. Parker, Matthew J. Bradley, Todd E. Rasmussen
      Pages 85-98

    8. The Modern Explosive Threat: Improvised Explosive Devices

      • Brian P. Shreve
      Pages 99-107

    9. Interagency Collaboration and Maturation – The UK Experience

      • Robert (Bob) Dobson, Howard R. Champion
      Pages 109-121

    10. Case Study: The Madrid Train Bombing of March 11, 2004

      • Isaac Ashkenazi, Scott D. Deitchman, Henry Falk
      Pages 123-130

  3. Prehospital Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Prehospital Management of Explosions: Scope of the Problem and Operational Considerations

      • Yevgeniy Maksimenko, Ricky C. Kue
      Pages 133-144

    3. Lessons in Prehospital Trauma Management During Combat

      • Andrew David Fisher, Ethan A. Miles
      Pages 145-161

    4. First Responders: Clinical Care of Blast Trauma in the Prehospital Setting

      • Jason R. Pickett, Joshua R. Todd, Ricky C. Kue
      Pages 163-187

    5. The Explosive Mass Casualty Incident: Prehospital Incident Management and Triage

      • Richard B. Schwartz, Richard McNutt
      Pages 189-206

    6. Transporting Blast-Injured Patients

      • Hideaki L. Tanaka, Alex P. Keller IV
      Pages 207-223

    7. Risk-Related Zones of Prehospital Operations

      • E. Reed Smith Jr., Geoff Shapiro, Ofer Lichtman, William Eisenhart
      Pages 225-243

    8. Tactical Emergency Medical Support

      • Rittik Chaudhuri, Ameen M. Jamali, Nelson Tang
      Pages 245-253

    9. Case Study: Primary Blast Injury in a Field Setting

      • Elon Glassberg, Avi Benov, Avraham Yitzhak
      Pages 255-258
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the medical and operational management of blast and explosive incidents affecting civilian populations. It incorporates global lessons learned from first responders, emergency medicine providers, surgeons, intensivists, and military specialists with deep experience in handling blast injuries from point of injury through rehabilitation.  


The book begins with background and introductory information on blast physics, explosion types, frequency, and perspectives from the military. This is followed by a section on prehospital management focusing on medical and trauma responses, triage, psychological consequences, and operational considerations. It then examines the roles of the emergency department and ICU with chapters on planning and training, surge capacity, resilience, management of common injury types, contamination, and ventilator strategies.  The next section covers surgical treatment of a variety of blast injuries such as thoracoabdominal, extremity and vascular, and orthopedic injuries. The book then discusses medical treatment of various injury patterns including lung, abdominal, extremity, and traumatic brain injury. The final section of the book covers post-hospital considerations such as rehabilitation, mental health, and community resilience. Throughout, case studies of recent incidents provide real-life examples of operational and medical management.


Operational and Medical Management of Explosive and Blast Incidents is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, nurses, and medical students in emergency medicine, traumatic surgery, intensive care medicine, and public health as well as civilian and military EMS providers.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, USA

    David W. Callaway

  • Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA

    Jonathan L. Burstein

About the editors

David W. Callaway, MD, MPA
Director, Division of Operational and Disaster Medicine
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC 


Jonathan L. Burstein, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operational and Medical Management of Explosive and Blast Incidents

  • Editors: David W. Callaway, Jonathan L. Burstein

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40655-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40654-7Published: 04 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40657-8Published: 05 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40655-4Published: 03 July 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 641

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Traumatic Surgery

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