Proposed Iraq/Afghanistan War-Lung Injury (IAW-LI) Clinical Practice Recommendations: National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine Burn Pits Workshop.

Occupational Lung Diseases among Soldiers Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, from 2004 to the present, has served in a setting of unique environmental conditions. Among these are exposures to burning trash in open air "burn pits" lit on fire with jet fuel JP-8. Depending on trash burned--water bottles, styrofoam trays, medical waste, unexploded munitions, and computers--toxins may be released such as dioxins and n-hex...

Review of the Institute of Medicine report: long-term health consequences of exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Critical concerns in Iraq/Afghanistan war veteran-forensic interface: combat-related postdeployment criminal violence.

Identifying whether there is a nexus between Iraq and Afghanistan combat injuries and civilian violence on return from deployment is complicated by differences in reactions of individuals to combat exposure, the overlapping effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the low base rate of civilian violence after combat exposure. Moreover, the overall pre...

Microscopy and Microanalysis of Mineral Particles in Lung Biopsies of Iraq and Afghanistan Deployers, Normal Controls, and Autoimmune Lung Disease Controls

US military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have been variably exposed to desert dusts, smoke from burn pits, and urban particulate matter, and some have developed constrictive bronchiolitis. We performed FE-SEM/EDS and LA-ICP-MS analyses as part of a larger blinded study to identify the particle types present, count numbers of particles of different types, and map the distribution o...

Burn support for Operation Iraqi Freedom and related operations, 2003 to 2004.

Thermal injury historically constitutes approximately 5% to 20% of conventional warfare casualties. This article reviews medical planning for burn care during war in Iraq and experience with burns during the war at the US Army Burn Center; aboard the USNS Comfort hospital ship; and at Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Two burn surgeons were deployed to the military hospital i...