Blast Injuries
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Humane killers, human injury: functional outcome of vole captive bolt injuries.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: High-pressure blast injuries to the hand due to vole captive bolt devices are serious injuries that are to a great extent unknown to emergency care operators and trauma surgeons. There is no study on the functional outcome of these ... Read more...

Concomitant cranial and ocular combat injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Concomitant cranial and ocular injuries were frequently seen in combat casualties during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The incidence of these injuries is reported along with an interventional case series. METHODS: A retrospective review was ... Read more...

Effect of temporary shunting on extremity vascular injury: an outcome analysis from the Global War on Terror vascular injury initiative.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Extremity vascular injury during the current war has been defined by anecdotal description and case series. These reports focused on estimation of short-term limb viability and technical description of commonly used adjuncts. Temporary ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Blast Injuries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The direct and indirect costs of explosive violence. 27 Sep 2009
• Humane killers, human injury: functional outcome of vole captive bolt injuries. 30 Aug 2009
• Concomitant cranial and ocular combat injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of temporary shunting on extremity vascular injury: an outcome analysis from the Global War on Terror vascular injury initiative. 30 Aug 2009
• [Ten years of hand transplantation experiment or routine?] 15 Aug 2009
• Assessment and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other polytrauma conditions: burden of adversity hypothesis. 30 Jul 2009
• Controversial case in endourology. A 27-year-old man suffered a blast injury while serving in Iraq. A right perinephric hematoma and shrapnel near the hilum of the right kidney were noted on CT. 30 Jul 2009
• Heterotopic ossification secondary to high-velocity gunshot and fragment wounds about the hip: a report of three cases. 30 Jul 2009
• Surgical response to multiple casualty incidents following single explosive events. 30 Jul 2009
• Traumatic brain injury and vestibular pathology as a comorbidity after blast exposure. 21 Jul 2009
• Blast injuries. 20 Jul 2009
• Dispatch from the medical front: A doctor and a grenade. 18 Jul 2009
• Visual impairment and dysfunction in combat-injured servicemembers with traumatic brain injury. 29 Jun 2009
• Tympanic membrane perforation after combat blast exposure in Iraq: a poor biomarker of primary blast injury. 29 Jun 2009
• Caring for Colombia's landmine survivors. 11 Jun 2009
• A critical problem begging for new insight and new therapies. 30 May 2009
• Biomarkers of blast-induced neurotrauma: profiling molecular and cellular mechanisms of blast brain injury. 30 May 2009
• In-vitro approaches for studying blast-induced traumatic brain injury. 30 May 2009
• Explosive blast neurotrauma. 30 May 2009
• An introductory characterization of a combat-casualty-care relevant swine model of closed head injury resulting from exposure to explosive blast. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Blast Injuries'

Definition: Injuries resulting when a person is struck by particles impelled with violent force from an explosion. Blast causes pulmonary concussion and hemorrhage, laceration of other thoracic and abdominal viscera, ruptured ear drums, and minor effects in the central nervous system. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

Descriptor UI: D001753

Alternative terms: Blast Injuries; Injuries, Blast; Blast Injury; Injury, Blast;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866.120.126;

Online Note: use BLAST INJURIES to search BLAST INJURY 1966-72

History Note: 73; was BLAST INJURY 1963-72

Technical Notes: various body inj from waves of high-pressure velocity; /compl permitted but do not confuse with /pathol