The Management of Mass Surgical War Casualties in Nuclear War

Case management for casualties of war

Purpose: To describe how case management can improve the transition between services for returning servicemen injured in war zones who often have very complex and multiple injuries. Context: Reviews a project undertaken for the Ministry of Defence in the UK. Data sources: Case management across secondary and primary care—studies; Literature relating to care of casualties from war zones; Statist...

Liver Injuries in Imposed War Casualties

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Counting Casualties in the War on Prisoners

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, numerous prisons in the United States have operated in a state of crisis.1 The sheer number of persons incarcerated during these years overwhelmed the capacity to safely and humanely house and administer to the prisoners placed under correctional control. Policies of mass incarceration that were pursued over these decades created drastic shortages of space and res...

Environmental casualties of the war on drugs.

C hemical control methods against illicit drug crops in producer countries have long been a fixture of the 20-year U.S. war on drugs. In 1998, President Bill Clinton unveiled *an unprecedented $16 billion antidrug initiative that induded a generous allotment for applying herbicides to crops in drug-producing nations. The U.S. initiative follows protocols outlined in the 1988 United Nations (UN)...

Penicillin: early trials in war casualties.