TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The Beirut Port explosion: injury trends from a mass survey of emergency admissions
JO  - Lancet
A1  - Mansour, Hana A.
A1  - Bitar, Eugenie
A1  - Fares, Youssef
A1  - Makdessi, Assad A.
A1  - Maalouf, Antoine
A1  - Ghoul, Mahmoud El
A1  - Mansour, Mohamad A.
A1  - Chami, Antoine
A1  - Khalil, Michel
A1  - Jalkh, Alex
A1  - Cherfan, Daniel
A1  - Fares, Jawad
A1  - Khuri, Fadlo R.
A1  - Mansour, Ahmad M.
SP  - 21
EP  - 22
VL  - 398
IS  - 10294
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0140-6736
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01246-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -