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Pain in traumatic upper limb amputees in Sierra Leone. [PDF]

, 2002
Data on 40 upper limb amputees (11 bilateral) with regard to stump pain, phantom sensation and phantom pain is presented. All the patients lost their limbs as a result of violent injuries intended to terrorise the population and were assessed 10-48 ...
Crombie, I K, Lacoux, P, Macrae, W A
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Experimental investigation of animals survival adequacy and efficacy in case of their soft tissues gunshot wounds using the thermometry technique

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022
The problem of gunshot wounds treatment is one of the urgent and incompletely resolved issues of modern surgery. Diagnosis of gunshot wounds is currently not efficient enough.
I. Lurin, I. Khomenko, V. Nehoduiko, S. Tertyshnyi, R. Vastyanov   +4 more
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Recurrent violent injury: magnitude, risk factors, and opportunities for intervention from a statewide analysis. [PDF]

, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Although preventing recurrent violent injury is an important component of a public health approach to interpersonal violence and a common focus of violence intervention programs, the true incidence of recurrent violent injury is unknown ...
Crandall, Marie L., Delgado, M. Kit, Ebler, David J., Kaufman, Elinore, Rising, MD, MS, Kristin L., Wiebe, Douglas J.   +5 more
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Links between traumatic brain injury and ballistic pressure waves originating in the thoracic cavity and extremities

, 2008
Identifying patients at risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important because research suggests prophylactic treatments to reduce risk of long-term sequelae.
Alexander MP, Amy Courtney, Bruton C, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cernak I, Cernak I, Courtney M, Courtney M, Herrmann M, Krave U, Kushner DS, Kushner DS, Lowenstein DH, Margerison JH, Mayorga MA, Michael Courtney, Newgard K, Scott SG, Shaw NA, Stalnacke BM, Suneson A, Suneson A, Suneson A, Thompson HJ, Toth Z, Treib J, Trudeau DL, Vanderploeg RD, Vink R, Wang Q   +29 more
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History of the Innovation of Damage Control for Management of Trauma Patients: 1902-2016 [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: To review the history of the innovation of damage control (DC) for management of trauma patients. Background: DC is an important development in trauma care that provides a valuable case study in surgical innovation.
Ball, Chad G., Fabian, Timothy C., Feliciano, David V., Ivatury, Rao R., Kirkpatrick, Andrew W., Lucas, Charles E., Moore, Ernest E., Roberts, Derek J., Stelfox, Henry T., Zygun, David A.   +9 more
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A Rare Case of a Gunshot Injury: No Urinary Symptoms with a Voided Bullet

Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2016
Gunshot injuries to the abdominal cavity are cases of emergency which can be life-threatening depending on the organ/s affected. High-velocity penetrating injuries can cause both a penetrating injury to the organs on its’ route or can cause blast injury ...
Yasin Ceylan, Zafer Kozacıoğlu, Volkan Şen, Tansu Değirmenci, İbrahim Küçüktürkmen, Bülent Günlüsoy   +5 more
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Management of gun shot injury in a tertiary hospital

Journal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal, 2016
Introduction: Gun shot injury is an uncommon surgical emergency . A timely and multidisciplinary management by surgical team is an essential factor in decreasing mortality and morbidity . This study highlights the multidisciplinary management of gun shot
A Joshi
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A Wormian Bone, Mimicking an Entry Gunshot Wound of the Skull, in an Anthropological Specimen [PDF]

, 2016
Wormian bones (WB) are irregular small cranial ossicles found along suture lines and fontanels. In Brazil, gunshot wounds to the skull are quite common in young individuals.
Cunha, E, Daruge Júnior, E, Durão, C, Flores, IL, Gamba, TO, Haiter Neto, F, Machado, MP, Simões, MP   +7 more
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Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In conflict‐affected societies, collective victimization can undermine social cohesion or foster narrow ingroup bonding and parochialism. We examine whether the possibility to know and freely communicate about diverse conflict experiences, which go beyond collective (ingroup) victimhood, can serve as a resource for community cohesion (i.e ...
Sandra Penić, Guy Elcheroth, Rezarta Bilali   +2 more
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Cardiac Gunshot Injury

JACC: Case Reports, 2021
Penetrating cardiac injuries carry a grave prognosis. We present a rare case of thoracic gunshot injury where the bullet ricocheted and lodged in the pericardium without causing damage to the adjacent cardiac structures.
Jeetesh Jain, MD, Dinkar Bhasin, MD, Anunay Gupta, MD, H.S. Isser, MD, Sandeep Bansal, MD   +4 more
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