@article{ref1,
title="Tornado disaster casualties admitted to a county hospital in the Jiangsu Province of China",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2020",
author="Dong, Junqiang and Wang, Bing and Deng, Qiangyu and Yu, Wenya and Chen, Haiping and Zhang, Lulu",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: We analyzed characteristics of tornado-related injuries and medical impact on a county-level hospital in China in June 23, 2016. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze local government rescue responses following the tornado. <br><br>METHODS: County hospital medical records of 288 tornado-related injury patients were collected. Descriptive analyses to study injury characteristics and associated risk factors were performed. <br><br>RESULTS: Of the studied population, 84% of the wounded were older than 45 years. Only 30 (10.4%) people were sent to the hospital for treatment within 3 hours following the disaster. Heavy objects or collapsing houses accounted for 191 (66.3%) of the documented injuries. The proportion of people with resulting brain injuries was 46.2% of the entire injured population, and the incidence of lower extremity injuries was 27.8%. A total of 89.6% of the wounded had skin and soft tissue injuries. Multiple injuries were found in 129 (44.8%) people and 156 had a single injury (54.2%), and 3 cases with acute stress disorder were admitted to the hospital. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Preparation plans, including tornado warnings, prevention, and rescue, are a basic requirement for the mitigation of tornado-related injuries. Protection awareness of tornado disasters is also critical to ensure injury prevention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2019.86",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2019.86"
}