학술논문
Orthopaedic Care Aboard the USNS Mercy During Operation Unified Assistance After the 2004 Asian Tsunami: A Case Series.
Document Type
Case Study
Source
Subject
*ORTHOPEDIC emergencies
*MEDICAL assistance
*SHIPS
*BONE fractures
*INDIAN Ocean Tsunami, 2004
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Language
ISSN
0021-9355
Abstract
The article presents several orthopaedic cases during the Operation Unified Assistance aboard the U.S. Navy ship Mercy. The operation is a response to the tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean basin on December 26, 2004. The cases include a forty-year-old man that sustained a tsunami-related open tibial fracture, a male with an open reduction and internal fixation of the right femur, a nineteen-year-old woman with an open fracture-dislocation of the right ankle.