@article{ref1,
title="The Beirut Port explosion: injury trends from a mass survey of emergency admissions",
journal="Lancet",
year="2021",
author="Mansour, Hana A. and Bitar, Eugenie and Fares, Youssef and Makdessi, Assad A. and Maalouf, Antoine and Ghoul, Mahmoud El and Mansour, Mohamad A. and Chami, Antoine and Khalil, Michel and Jalkh, Alex and Cherfan, Daniel and Fares, Jawad and Khuri, Fadlo R. and Mansour, Ahmad M.",
volume="398",
number="10294",
pages="21-22",
abstract="On Aug 4, 2020, 1807 h, one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history rocked Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, with a population of 2 million. The Beirut Port ammonium nitrate explosion (BPANE) happened when a fire set off 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate, which had been stored inside the port for 6 years. Soon after the explosion, we surveyed all patient admissions to emergency departments to analyse the pattern of injuries caused by the explosion.   We followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Retrospectively, private and public hospitals located within 88·2 km of the port of Beirut were contacted...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-6736",
doi="10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01246-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01246-0"
}