The blast induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) has become a signature wound of the war on terror 1 . The majority of combat related TBI cases are categorized as mild (mTBI) based on the event history and cognitive symptoms such as: concentration problems, blurred vision, irritability, headaches, sleep disorders and depression 2 . In spite of immense clinical and preclinical research on TBI cur...

Scurvy, caused by lack of vitamin C, was a major problem for polar explorers. It may have contributed to the general ill-health of the members of Scott's polar party in 1912 but their deaths are more likely to have been caused by a combination of frostbite, malnutrition and hypothermia. Some have argued that Oates's war wound in particular suffered dehiscence caused by a lack of vitamin C, but ...

I HAVE been asked to offer some suggestions as to a suitable way of treating certain fractures of tlle upper and lover limbs as they occur at time seat of war. We realize tllat wounds as imlet witlh during the Boer and Russo-Japanese camLpaigns were very different in cllaracter from those occurring on the riclhly manured fields in Flanders wlhere suppuration so commonly follows. Time point, tlh...

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is a major cause of morbidity in burns patients. There is a paucity of publications dealing with this infection in the paediatric population. We describe the incidence, microbiology and impact of P. aeruginosa infection in a dedicated paediatric burns unit. METHODS A retrospective review of patients with clinically significant P. aeruginosa infectio...

During the American Civil War, contemporary accounts describe a peculiar luminescence phenomenon associated with untreated injuries sustained by fallen troops after Battle of Shiloh (6-7 April 1862). While not experienced all soldiers, field surgeons observed that glow was somehow linked to reduced rates wound infection and better outcomes. Given wet springtime weather unsheltered overnight con...

wound healing in the skin depends upon the availability of appropriate trace metals as enzyme cofactors and structural components in tissue repair. the present study is a part of a series of experimental investigations to examine the influence of bentonite on skin wound healing. surgically induced skin wounds in 48 young adult male rats were exposed topically to bentonite (12 round wound and 12...

The purpose of this study was to compare symptoms of PTSD among war affected people and employees in the fire station. Totally, 60 people affected by war and 60 fire workers were selected using simple random sampling. By completing PCL inventory, samples of PTSD were characterized. Data was analysed through SPSS software by independent t-test. As the results showed, severity of PTSD symptoms am...

although the shelling and bombing against the residential areas have been prohibited in the international law, the iraqi regime used these tools frequently to advance its military and political strategy. these attacks were escalated after the kheibar operation. this article considers the definitions and concepts of the war of the cities and then studies the trend of this war during the iran-ira...