ASPR TRACIE (Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response/Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) Technical Assistance Request: Injury Types Due to Explosions | NLM

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ASPR TRACIE (Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response/Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) Technical Assistance Request: Injury Types Due to Explosions

09/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 9/9/2020. This five-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides resources for a hospital that is working with its region’s healthcare coalition on a trauma mass casualty incident (MCI) virtual tabletop exercise (TTX), and would like to use the industry site explosion that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, as its TTX scenario. The requestor asked if ASPR TRACIE could help identify updated figures on the number of people injured and killed by the Beirut explosion, and the mechanism of injuries from the incident to help with victimology for the exercise’s scenario. (PDF)