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BACKGROUND:

In most accidents causing smoke inhalation only a few victims actually inhale the smoke. The fire at King's Cross provided an opportunity to assess the long term effects of smoke inhalation in a larger number of patients.

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Fourteen survivors from the King's Cross underground station fire were assessed for respiratory disability six months after the disaster and 10 were reassessed at two years. All had inhaled substantial quantities of smoke and 10 had skin burns of differing severity.

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TERRA is een tweejarig preventie- en voorlichtingsproject dat gebruik maakt van een Europees netwerk, gefinancierd door het Directoraat-Generaal voor Migratie en Binnenlandse Zaken van de Europese Commissie. De uitvoering is in handen van Impact, het kenniscentrum voor psychosociale zorg na schokkende gebeurtenissen, partner in Arq Psychotrauma Expert Groep, Nederland en de Vereniging voor de Hulp aan de Slachtoffers van 11 maart (AV11M) in Madrid. TERRA hanteert een preventieve benadering van radicalisering dat tot terrorisme kan leiden.

TERRA is a two year Europe wide network based prevention and learning project, funded by the European Commission, DG Home Affairs. It is carried out by Impact Knowledge and Advice Centre, Amsterdam, and AV11M, Madrid. TERRA takes a preventative approach towards radicalisation leading to terrorism.

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Background
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a first-line treatment for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some clinicians argue that with refugees, directly targeting traumatic memories through EMDR may be harmful or ineffective.
Aims
To determine the safety and efficacy of EMDR in adult refugees with PTSD (trial registration: ISRCTN20310201).
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The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between causal attributions and psychiatric symptoms in those who survived the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry, two years following the disaster. Internal and controllable attributions for disaster-related experience are strongly related to poorer psychological outcome.