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A young school-age child suffered bomb-related primary and secondary injuries in a closed space and the Emergency Room calls you for assistance; what should you specifically anticipate? Further discussions include organophosphate poisoning, high-velocity ballistic injuries, chest tube management during air transport, and penetrating neck trauma.

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  1. Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert S. Holzman MD, MA (Hon.), FAAP (Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Professor of Anaesthesia)

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert S. Holzman MD, MA (Hon.), FAAP (Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Professor of Anaesthesia)

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Correspondence to Robert S. Holzman MD, MA (Hon.), FAAP .

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  1. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert S. Holzman

  2. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Thomas J. Mancuso

  3. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Joseph P. Cravero

  4. Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia, Chief Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    James A. DiNardo

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Holzman, R.S. (2017). Trauma I. In: Holzman, R., Mancuso, T., Cravero, J., DiNardo, J. (eds) Pediatric Anesthesiology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48448-8_37

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