Civilian Casualties

Wartime estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties

Challenges exist when making reliable and valid estimates of civilian mortality due to war. This article first discusses a framework used to examine war’s impact on civilians and then considers challenges common to each statistical approach taken to estimate civilian casualties. It examines the different approaches that have been used to estimate civilian casualties associated with the recent f...

The war in Iraq: civilian casualties, political responsibilities.

How will military/civilian coordination work for reception of mass casualties from overseas?

INTRODUCTION In Maryland, there have been no military/civilian training exercises of the Medical Mutual Aid Agreement for >20 years. The aims of this paper are to describe the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), to coordinate military and civilian medical mutual aid in response to arrival of overseas mass casualties, and to evaluate the mass-casualty reception and bed "surge" capacity of M...

Cognitive Training Can Reduce Civilian Casualties in a Simulated Shooting Environment.

Shooting a firearm involves a complex series of cognitive abilities. For example, locating an item or a person of interest requires visual search, and firing the weapon (or withholding a trigger squeeze) involves response execution (or inhibition). The present study used a simulated shooting environment to establish a relationship between a particular cognitive ability and a critical shooting e...

Medical aspects of the mass-scale civilian casualties at Sarajevo Markale market on August 28, 1995: triage, resuscitation, and treatment.

The siege of Sarajevo, which holds an important but tragic position in the history of war, lasted for more than 45 months, from April 6, 1992 to March 19, 1996. Shelling of the Markale city market on August 28, 1995, was the attack with the largest number of civilian casualties. There were 23 persons killed on the spot. Another 104 were injured, of whom 15 died immediately after the explosion o...