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Background
After a bomb blast or explosion, health care personnel with little or no pediatric experience could be called upon to treat children. Although the general principles of emergency medicine apply when treating explosive-blast victims, all clinicians should understand there are important differences between treating adults and treating infants and children. The highlights of these treatment differences follow below.
Clinical Presentation
Initial Management
Other Considerations
This fact sheet of a series of materials developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on blast injuries. For more information, visit CDC on the Web at: www.emergency.cdc.gov/Blastinjuries.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
June 2009