Abstract
We encountered the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The magnitude of the earthquake is 9.0 and it is one of the greatest from A.D. 1900 to now. The earthquake developed large tsunami and many people living on the pacific coast of east Japan died from lung disorder caused by near drowning with tsunami. We also encountered three cases of lung disorders caused by near drowning. All three were females, and two of them were old elderly. All segments of both lungs were involved in all the three patients, necessitating ICU admission and endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. All three died within three weeks. In at least two cases, misswallowing of oil was suspected from the features noted at the time of the detection. Many bacteria were detected from the phlegm of two cases.
Highlights
As a result of a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck eastern Japan at 2:46 pm on March 11, 2011, an unimaginable tsunami developed and wreaked devastating damage on the Pacific Coast region from Aomori Prefecture to Chiba Prefecture
Three people who had been engulfed by the tsunami and rescued were taken to a local hospital, but because they had lapsed into serious respiratory failure as a result of near drowning, on the day after the disaster they were transported by helicopter to our facility inland
Near drownings caused by the tsunamis appear to differ even more from near drowning in saltwater, and that appears to be because the seawater that sweeps over the land during tsunamis assails people as it engulfs a variety of objects on land
Summary
As a result of a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck eastern Japan at 2:46 pm on March 11, 2011, an unimaginable tsunami developed and wreaked devastating damage on the Pacific Coast region from Aomori Prefecture to Chiba Prefecture. The total number of dead and missing as a result of the earthquake exceeded 20,000, and more than 300,000 disaster victims were living in evacuation shelters. Three people who had been engulfed by the tsunami and rescued were taken to a local hospital, but because they had lapsed into serious respiratory failure as a result of near drowning, on the day after the disaster they were transported by helicopter to our facility inland
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