Blast injuries.

Terrorism and blast explosions: lessons for the Australian surgical community.

The prospect of a terrorist attack against Australian interests is currently being debated across our society. The explosive blast attack is most favoured by terrorists. Blast injuries create unique patterns of multisystem injury with contaminated wounds and extensive devitalized tissue. Australian civilian surgeons are increasingly likely to be involved in the management of these injuries, eit...

Pathology of blast-related brain injury.

Blasts are responsible for about two-thirds of the combat injuries in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, which include at least 1,200 traumatic brain injuries. Blasts inflict damage to the brain directly and by causing injuries to other organs, resulting in air emboli, hypoxia, and shock. Direct injuries to the brain result from rapid shifts in air pressure (primary blast i...

Blast injuries: mechanics and wounding patterns.

Blast and fragment injuries are the most frequently encountered wounds in modern warfare. Explosive devices have become the preferred weapon of domestic and foreign terrorists because they are relatively inexpensive to manufacture and can cause substantial casualties. Although blast injuries have traditionally been associated with the battlefield, this type of trauma is being seen more commonly...

A review of three cases of mobile blast: The new culprit of hand injury

Although blast injuries are common with war; cooking gas; firecracker, mobile phone blast cases are increasing in number in last couple of years. We present 3 cases of mobile blast in 3 children causing injury to dominant hand in them.

Pulmonary Primary Blast Injuries

Effect of human and sheep lung orientation on primary blast injury induced by single blast

The intensity and type of trauma inflicted on a bod y by blast overpr essure are related to man y facto rs. Among them, body orientation. In order to study the effect of body orientation, detailed models of 2D horizontal slices of human and sh eep thoraces have been developed and va lidated with the limited data available in the open literature. The main goal o f this stud y is to verify if the...