Conflict has historically driven advances in military medicine. Sustained casualty rates since
2003 for UK military personnel on Operation Telic (Iraq) and Operation Herrick (Afghanistan) …

Blocks of gelatine are used in both lethality and survivability studies for broadly the same
reason, ie comparison of ammunition effects using a material that it is assumed represents …

ABC has become established as the ubiquitous emergency care paradigm, reflected across
the spectrum of advanced life support programmes. Military practitioners have been …

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Introduction Body armour is a type of equipment worn by military personnel that aims to
prevent or reduce the damage caused by ballistic projectiles to structures within the thorax …

Pre‐hospital emergency anaesthesia with oral tracheal intubation is the technique of choice
for trauma patients who cannot maintain their airway or achieve adequate ventilation. It …

Objectives Combat casualty care is a complex system involving multiple clinicians, medical
interventions and casualty transfers. Improving the performance of this system requires …

This chapter is written for clinical staff with little or no previous exposure to firearms.
Although one must “treat the wound and not the weapon,” a knowledge of how firearms work …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the neuroprotective efficacy of the inert gas xenon as a
treatment for patients with blast-induced traumatic brain injury in an in vitro laboratory model …

BACKGROUND Primary blast lung injury (PBLI) is an acknowledged cause of death in
explosive blast casualties. In contrast to vehicle occupants following an in-vehicle explosion …