A 48-year-old male sustains a blast injury from an industrial explosion. He has bilateral tympanic membrane perforation, abdominal distension, and blo...

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A 48-year-old male sustains a blast injury from an industrial explosion. He has bilateral tympanic membrane perforation, abdominal distension, and blood-streaked diarrhoea. What category of blast injury causes the abdominal symptoms?

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Primary blast injury - the blast overpressure wave damages air-filled organs including the bowel

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Tertiary blast injury - the patient being thrown against objects

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Quaternary blast injury - thermal burns to the abdomen

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Secondary blast injury - fragments penetrating the abdomen

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Quinary blast injury - radiological contamination

uk-dipimc MCQ (SBA): Blast Bowel Injury

A 48-year-old male sustains a blast injury from an industrial explosion. He has bilateral tympanic membrane perforation, abdominal distension, and blood-streaked diarrhoea. What category of blast injury causes the abdominal symptoms?