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Burns Associated with Wars and Disasters

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Military operations and civilian mass casualty fire disasters provide an ultimate test of the ability of individuals, hospitals, and health care systems to respond to large numbers of critically injured burn patients. Armed conflict in the modern era has featured thermal injury in 5–20% of casualties. In recent conflicts, improvised explosive devices have become the predominant mechanism of injury for combat casualties. Mishaps involving fuels or explosives are a common cause of accidental injury on the battlefield. Civilian mass casualty disasters commonly feature 25–50 casualties each, but on occasion have produced many more. The era of large-scale terrorist attacks has now blurred the lines between military conflict and civilian mass casualty events. Recognizing that burn expertise is a scarce resource and that burn care is manpower- and resource-intensive, successful management of both types of events requires commitment, planning, and practice.

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