ARRS Imaging Victims of Violence: Fists, Stabs, Bullets, and Blasts 2021

Clarifying both the common and uncommon imaging findings associated with fist fights, penetrating trauma, and other explosive injuries to enhance patient care, this Online Course will also address the radiologist’s role in Mass Casualty Activations, which can incorporate any and all of the aforementioned injury mechanisms.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Describe the injury patterns associated with unarmed physical confrontations.
• Describe ballistic wounding patterns and their imaging correlates.
• Discuss the mechanism of blast injury and common injury patterns associated with different phases of explosive blasts.
• Assess the role of radiology in Mass Casualty Activations.

Speakers and Lectures

• Fist, Face, and Other Fight-Associated Fractures—L. Avery
• Get the Point? Imaging Stab Wounds—H. Maresky
• Ballistic Trauma: The Basics in Bullet Form—N. Ditkofsky
• Blast Injuries: Mechanisms, Injuries, and Management—M. Grant
• Mass Casualty Events: What You Need to Know!—E. Roberge