Why We Are Here: Early Reflections on the Role of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
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Why We Are Here: Early Reflections on the Role of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
Abstract/Description
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombings resulted in a large and unexpected influx of patients requiring acute multidisciplinary surgical care. The authors describe the surgical management experience of these patients at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital, with a particular focus on the important role played by reconstructive plastic surgery. The authors suggest that this experience illustrates the value of reconstructive plastic surgery in the treatment of these patients specifically and of trauma patients in general, and argue for the increasing importance of promoting our identity as a specialty.
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Date
In publication
Volume
132
Issue
6
Pages
1623–1627
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Other
Open access/free-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0032-1052
Citation
Carty, M. J., Caterson, E. J., Caterson, S. A., Chun, Y. S., Erdmann-Sager, J., Hadad, I., Halvorson, E. G., Orgill, D. P., Sampson, C. E., Talbot, S. G., Theman, T., & Eriksson, E. (2013). Why We Are Here: Early Reflections on the Role of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 132(6), 1623–1627. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182a98054
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