title: [Burn-blast combined injury].
abstract: Burn-blast combined injury is caused by two injury factors--heat and blast, which inflict the body at the same time or in sequence. The incidence of the combined injury is high either in wartime or in peacetime, and the mortality is much higher than that of an injury due to either one injury factor. In order to elucidate the mechanism, characteristics of the injury and the treatment of the combined injury, lots of studies were carried out both at home and abroad. The paper presents the data of burn-blast injury from a part of experimental studies and some clinical experience in the past forty years. The paper may be useful to medical doctors who may treat burn-blast injury in future.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Surgery, Daping Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Pei-fang
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zheng-guo
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000628:therapy*; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000628:therapy*