Review of Military Casualties in Modern Conflicts—The Re-emergence of Casualties From Armored Warfare

Review on Effect of Hemorrhages in Rescuing Casualties from Fatalities

Introduction: High bleeding due to hypolemia may cause early death. If injured persons hospitalized due to trauma, they may more likely to die. Methods for bleeding control include mechanical, heat treatment, drug therapy, or topical hemostats. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of hemorrhage and their usages in all emergency bleeding cases (in the years of 2008-2019). In t...

Anesthesia for Casualties of Chemical Warfare Agents

A Triage Model for Chemical Warfare Casualties

CONTEXT The main objectives of triage are securing patient safety during the process of emergency diagnosis and treatment, and reduction of waiting time for medical services and transport. To date, there is no triage system for nerve agent victims. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION This systematic review proposes a new triage system for patients exposed to nerve agents. Information regarding clinical sign...

Early acute kidney injury in military casualties.

BACKGROUND While acute kidney injury (AKI) has been well studied in a variety of patient settings, there is a paucity of data in patients injured in the course of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We sought to establish the rate of early AKI in this population and to define risk factors for its development. METHODS We combined the results of two studies performed at combat support hosp...

Treatment of blast and burn casualties in atomic warfare.