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Complex dismounted blast injury In contrast, the dismounted IED casualty may sustain a char acteristic pattern of injuries, including lower limb amputation, pelvic fracture and genital, perineal and rectal injuries. The most common cause of death in such cas...

DAMAGE CONTROL SURGERY 15 DCS was first described by Rotondo et al ., although the idea of an abbreviated laparotomy for the unwell patient was not totally novel. The concepts of DCS were initially applied to complex trauma patients with combined vascular an...

DECISION MAKING WITHIN THE DEPLOYED ENVIRONMENT The damage control approach is vital in a proportion of war injuries, but thought must be given to available resources. Within a well-established role 3 unit, both DCS and definitive procedures are likely to be p...

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Environmental effects As already alluded to, the shockwave of blast overpressure is modified by an enclosed or partially enclosed space. Envi ronmental variations may make marked di ff erences to injury rates and clinical presentations following blast. Higher r...

HOW IS WAR SURGERY DIFFERENT? While civilian trauma surgery bears some of the hallmarks of the battlefield, there are fundamental contrasts in environment and injury pattern that must be appreciated: /uni25CF The environment of war is likely to be austere. Wh...

INFECTION Battlefield wounds are by their very nature grossly contami - nated and the treatment and prevention of infection is one of the basic functions of war surgery . Wounds sustained during warfare are high-energy wounds with large areas of devitalised ...

Improvised explosive devices The characteristic weapon of modern warfare has been the IED, which was the leading cause of death among coalition 22 troops during conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. devices may range from rudimentary homemade explosives to sophi...

INTRODUCTION The treatment of war wounds is as ancient as warfare itself. The Edwin Smith papyrus has been dated to 1600 /uni00A0 /b.sc/c.sc/e.sc is the oldest known treatise on trauma surgery and anatomy . The history of battlefield surgery is the history of...