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Analysis of Emergency Medical Rescue in the “8–12” Tianjin Port Heavy Fire Explosion Accident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2021

Wenlong Dong ,
Jie Jin Open the ORCID record for Jie Jin [Opens in a new window] ,
Ming Lu ,
Hui Ding ,
Qi Lv ,
Haojun Fan ,
Shike Hou  and
Bin Fan
Wenlong Dong
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Jie Jin
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Ming Lu
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Hui Ding
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Qi Lv
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Haojun Fan
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Shike Hou
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
Bin Fan*
Affiliation:
Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University; Tianjin Key Laboratory for Disaster Medicine Technology, Tianjin, China
*
Correspondence: Bin Fan, Institute of Disaster Medicine, Tianjin University, No. 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, China 300072, E-mail: fanbin911@126.com
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Abstract

With the progress in science and technology, hazardous chemicals are becoming more essential in chemical products, industrial and agricultural production, and daily life. Hazardous chemicals have poisoning, corrosive, explosive, and combusting natures; once on fire, they can trigger a chain of catastrophic incidences, resulting in casualties, property loss, and environmental pollution and posing hazards to life and property. Using the “8–12” explosion of the Ruihai Logistics warehouse in Tianjin Port (Binhai New District, China), the present study analyzes the characteristics of trauma of the casualties in this accident and the emergency medical rescue strategies. The goals were to improve the ability of emergency rescue in such accidents and to save people’s lives and property to the maximum extent.

Keywords

emergency medical rescueexplosionhazardous chemical

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 237 - 242
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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Footnotes

Note: Wenlong Dong and Jie Jin contributed equally to this work.

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