Boston Marathon Bombing

April 15, 2013

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While hospitals along the Boston Marathon route typically prepare for a surge of patients on race day, these area hospitals were inundated with hundreds of patients with injuries more typical of war wounds than marathon injuries on April 15, 2013. At approximately 3pm, two bombs were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The explosions caused three fatalities and hundreds of injuries.

 

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• What Boston Hospitals Learned from Israel  (Jewish Journal News)
• Under the Medical Tent at the Boston Marathon (The New England Journal of Medicine)
• Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready (The New Yorker)
• How to Help in Times of Disaster (Without Making the Disaster Worse) (Examiner.com)
• Lessons From Military Surgeries Informed Treatment of Boston Victims (The New York Times)
• Resilience Through Learning – Explosions & Mass Gatherings (National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health)
• Hospital Scene After Marathon was Like a Battle Zone (Boston Globe)
• Boston Hospitals Put to Test After Marathon Explosions (Becker’s Hospital Review)
• Boston Hospitals Scramble to Care for Wounded After Blasts (Reuters)
• Talking to Children After Tragedy (Boston Children’s Hospital)