Modern military surgery: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 94 B, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 536-543

  Brown, K V ^a   Guthrie, H C ^a   Ramasamy, A ^a   Kendrew, J M ^a   Clasper, J ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACETABULUM FRACTURE; AFGHANISTAN; ANESTHESIA; BATTLE INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FASCIOTOMY; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIRST AID; GAUZE DRESSING; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL FIXATOR; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; IRAQ; KNEE AMPUTATION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SERVICE; MIDDLE EAST; MUSCLE FLAP; OPEN FRACTURE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PELVIS INJURY; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPERFUSION INJURY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOLDIER; SURGICAL INFECTION; TISSUE NECROSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TOURNIQUET; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LIMB SALVAGE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ORTHOPEDICS; PELVIS; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84860329467     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.94B4.28602     Document Type: Review

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