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Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings

Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings5

  • Promote use of eye shields on the scene for patients with potential eye injuries 
  • Maintain reliable communications
  • Deepen the ophthalmology call algorithm
  • Integrate ophthalmology services into trauma teams and maintain a voice in hospital-wide disaster planning
  • Provide patients with replacement spectacles ASAP during response efforts

5 Ocular Blast Injuries in Mass-Casualty Incidents: the Marathon Bombing in Boston, Massachusetts and the Fertilizer Plant Explosion in West, Texas [In press, Ophthalmology 2014], Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, et al.

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