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The Management of the Khan Al-Assal Chemical Attack in Aleppo University Hospital (AUH)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2018

M. Ihsan Kaadan  and
Hilarie Cranmer
M. Ihsan Kaadan*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Hilarie Cranmer
Affiliation:
Director, Global Disaster Response, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Correspondence and reprints request to M. Ihsan Kaadan, MD, MS, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St. Jackson 1302, Boston, MA 02114-2696 (e-mail: mikaadan@brandeis.edu)
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Abstract

On March 19, 2013, Khan al-Assal was attacked with chemical weapons. In total, 20 people were killed and an additional 124 were injured; 63 people were cared for at Aleppo University Hospital on that day, where 14 died, all of them were civilians; 7 men, 6 women, and 1 child. This is a brief first hand report, for what has now become a more frequent, more deadly and horrific event in the lives of many Syrians. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:663–665)

Keywords

AleppoSyriadisaster medicinechemical warfare
Type
Report from the Field
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 2018 , pp. 663 - 665
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2018 

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