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Understanding blast-induced neurotrauma: how far have we come?
Concussion, 2017 Blast injuries, including blast-induced neurotrauma (BINT), are caused by blast waves generated during an explosion. Accordingly, their history coincides with that of explosives.
Ibolja Cernak
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Characteristics and treatments of ocular blast injury in Tianjin explosion in China
BMC Ophthalmology, 2020 Background To document characteristics and treatments of ocular blast injury from a fire and explosion. Method Authors retrospectively evaluated 116 patients with 166 eye injuries from six hospitals.
Yuanyuan Liu +10 more
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Delayed cardiac tamponade secondary to blast injury from gunshot wound
Trauma Case Reports, 2023 Background: Penetrating injuries are recognized for the direct tissue damage, which is typically evident on physical examination. Secondary injuries resulting from kinetic energy transfer in the case of gunshot wounds (GSWs), often referred to as “blast ...
Louis F. Chai +7 more
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Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2014 Blast injuries due to explosions remain the leading cause of death and injury to military personnel. Explosive devices have also been a preferred weapon of terrorists as they are cheap to manufacture and can cause lots of casualties.
Sunkara Venkateswara Kumar
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Detection of blast-related traumatic brain injury in U.S. military personnel [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Blast-related traumatic brain injuries have been common in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but fundamental questions about the nature of these injuries remain unanswered.
Brody, David L +11 more
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Suicide by Bomb, with Decapitation [PDF]
, 2016 Suicide by explosion is rare outside of the context of terrorist activities. We present a case of a man with a history of explosives expertise who committed suicide by bomb/decapitation.
McLemore, Amanda M. +2 more
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One-hundred years (and counting) of blast-associated traumatic brain injury [PDF]
, 2018 Blast-associated traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become one of the signature issues of modern warfare and is increasingly a concern in the civilian population due to a rise in terrorist attacks.
Fullerton, Josephine L. +2 more
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Very early increase in nitric oxide formation and oxidative cell damage associated with the reduction of tissue oxygenation is a trait of blast casualties [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2005 Background. In our previous experimental studies, we found evidence for the increase of nitric oxide (NO) formation immediately after blast injury. In the present study we investigated whether NO overproduction was a trait for the period immediately ...
Žunić Gordana +3 more
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The Libyan civil conflict : selected case series of orthopaedic trauma managed in Malta in 2014 [PDF]
, 2015 Aim: The purpose of this series of cases was to analyse our management of orthopaedic trauma casualties in the Libyan civil war crisis in the European summer of 2014. We looked at both damage control orthopaedics and for case variety of war trauma at a
Borg, Joseph N. +3 more
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Using Gas-Driven Shock Tubes to Produce Blast Wave Signatures
Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 The increased incidence of improvised explosives in military conflicts has brought about an increase in the number of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) observed.
Rubbel Kumar +2 more
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