#  Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings 

 



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### 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.

   ![Eye Injury Types](/sites/g/files/omnuum9886/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/eye/files/eye-injuries-chart_0.png?itok=fp-Pa3Lm)