Treatment of Survivors after the Tsunami

To the Editor: The tsunami that struck the Asian subcontinent and Africa on December 26, 2004, caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people. In Thailand more than 10,000 people were treated in ambulatory health centers. After a tsunami, the effects on people occur in three phases. The injuries that...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 352; no. 25; pp. 2654 - 2655
Main Authors Kongsaengdao, Subsai, Bunnag, Sakarn, Siriwiwattnakul, Napa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 23.06.2005
Subjects
Adult
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Disasters
Endemic Diseases
Humans
Lung Abscess - diagnostic imaging
Lung Abscess - microbiology
Melioidosis - etiology
Melioidosis - therapy
Middle Aged
Multiple Trauma - etiology
Multiple Trauma - therapy
Pneumonia, Aspiration - microbiology
Pneumonia, Aspiration - therapy
Pneumonia, Bacterial
Radiography
Survivors
Thailand
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Summary:To the Editor: The tsunami that struck the Asian subcontinent and Africa on December 26, 2004, caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people. In Thailand more than 10,000 people were treated in ambulatory health centers. After a tsunami, the effects on people occur in three phases. The injuries that are incompatible with life (e.g., severe cardiovascular events, head injury, and blunt injury) happen in the first minutes; then, over the following hours, complications such as massive hemorrhage, hemopneumothorax, and pulmonary embolism are seen. These are followed, in turn, by the late complications, including infectious diseases that develop over days . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM200506233522523