Surgical innovations arising from the iraq and Afghanistan wars

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue , 2010, Pages 457-468

  Ling, Geoffrey S F ^a   Rhee, Peter ^b   Ecklund, James M ^c  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat casualty care; Extremity injury; Hemorrhage; Military medicine; Shock; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; AFGHANISTAN; AMPUTATION; ARMY; AUTOPSY; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLEEDING; CRANIECTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FASCIOTOMY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FRACTURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; LUNG INJURY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOURNIQUET; WAR; WOUND DRESSING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEMOSTASIS; INJURY; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MILITARY MEDICINE; TELEMEDICINE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77951973734     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.60.071207.140903     Document Type: Review

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