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Airway Management in Combat Trauma
Current Pulmonology Reports, 2017Airway compromise remains a leading cause of death in battlefield trauma. The purpose of this review is to examine the impact of airway compromise on survival in the combat trauma population and assess the challenges in providing effective airway management in the combat environment when contrasted with the civilian peacetime environment.
David Ferraro
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Hypothermia in the Combat Trauma Population
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2022The MARCH (Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respirations, Circulation, and Hypothermia/Head injuries) algorithm taught to military medics includes interventions to prevent hypothermia. As possible sequelae from major trauma, hypothermia is associated with coagulopathy and lower survival.
Steven G. Schauer +7 more
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“Routine trauma”—Awareness of combat trauma in women combatants.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and PolicyThe current research aims to explore the nature of trauma experienced by female combatants.Data were collected from two focus groups and a series of personal interviews with 100 women military veterans who had served in the Israel Defense Forces as combat or combat-support soldiers.Interviews with these veterans revealed a variety of narratives about ...
Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Ayelet Harel
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2011
Despite the advances of modern orthopedic trauma techniques, the amputation rate for injured victims of modern warfare is on the rise. Increased devastation from high-velocity missiles and the prevalence of high-energy explosives in combat are directly responsible for the rise in extremity injuries.
Nikolaj Wolfson, Samuel C. Schecter
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Despite the advances of modern orthopedic trauma techniques, the amputation rate for injured victims of modern warfare is on the rise. Increased devastation from high-velocity missiles and the prevalence of high-energy explosives in combat are directly responsible for the rise in extremity injuries.
Nikolaj Wolfson, Samuel C. Schecter
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Implementation of a Combat Casualty Trauma Registry
Journal of Trauma Nursing, 2008The Joint Theater Trauma Registry is a standardized, retrospective data collection system for all echelons of combat casualty care. Military-specific data elements include expanded demographic data to include military branch, service, rank, military occupation, and personal protective equipment. Varying data from each echelon are entered into the Joint
Michael Alan, Glenn +7 more
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Pediatric trauma in an austere combat environment
Critical Care Medicine, 2008The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of pediatric patients admitted with traumatic injuries to U.S. combat support hospitals and to provide insight into both critical care and noncritical care challenges this presents.The authors provide a descriptive report.This study was conducted at seven combat support hospitals in both Iraq
Philip C, Spinella +2 more
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Combat ocular trauma and systemic injury
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, 2008To review the recent literature regarding combat ocular trauma during hostilities in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, describe the classification of combat ocular trauma, and offer strategies that may assist in the management of eye injuries.Several recent publications have highlighted features of combat ocular trauma from Operation Iraqi
Eric D, Weichel, Marcus H, Colyer
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Simulation for trauma and combat casualty care
Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies, 2005Training medical providers to care for traumatically injured patients is a difficult undertaking and currently used training strategies are often suboptimal. The further strains placed on trauma care in the military environment only add to the challenge.
E, Matt Ritter, Mark W, Bowyer
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2010
Much has been written of the short-term experience of combat trauma. Almost nothing has been documented about how that trauma impacts individuals years after their first conflict experiences and into later life. Here, Johnson relates the stories of fifteen of his combat brothers to share with the world what their terror of four decades ago has done to ...
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Much has been written of the short-term experience of combat trauma. Almost nothing has been documented about how that trauma impacts individuals years after their first conflict experiences and into later life. Here, Johnson relates the stories of fifteen of his combat brothers to share with the world what their terror of four decades ago has done to ...
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