the treatment strategy of colonic injuries is a debatable and highly controversial subject worldwide in various medical centers. the method of treatment of left and .. right colonic injuries, diversity or similarity in their management and particularly differences between the treatment of war-associated injury from other types of colonic damage are among the unsettled issues. the present study ...

traumatic false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is not uncommon. but accordingly this case is unusual in its ten year delay between injury and presentation and treatment. a victim of the iran-iraq war is presented with a false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta ten years after a bullet injury to the chest and thoracic spine. penetrating chest wounds, mechanisms of injury and diagnosis are also discu...

BACKGROUND In the second Lebanon war in 2006, the Israeli Defense Forces fought against well-prepared and well-equipped paramilitary forces. The conflict took place near the Israeli border and major Israeli medical centers. Good data records were maintained throughout the campaign, allowing accurate analysis of injury characteristics. This study is an in-depth analysis of injury mechanisms, sev...

our experience as a result of this war shows that early intubation, aggressive resuscitation and gcs score are important factors for survival. the time of arrival has great importance on mortality. despite the diversity of views in the literature, patients with gcs of 4 and above should be operated if surgical pathologies exist, and decompressive craniectomy must made wide. if duraplasty is nec...

INTRODUCTION Mortality in war is traditionally divided into two categories: killed in action and died of wounds. Mortality in civilian trauma is generally divided into three categories: immediate death (50%), early death (30%), and late death (20%). Can we identify a trimodal death distribution among war victims? METHODS We analyzed data for casualties in the Lebanon War from June 6 to Septem...

OBJECTIVE We analyzed the causes of deaths among the members of the 4th Guardian Brigade (GB) of the Croatian Army during the war in Croatia from 1991 to 1995: the site of the lethal injuries, the type of wounds, and estimated the severity of injuries with lethal outcome according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale. METHODS This was a retrospective study using the files and data obtained from 4t...

When the previous Surgeon-General, Sir Cameron Moffat, invited me to give this lecture, I had just finished writing a book about the development of the armed • forces of the major military nations in the 20th century, and in doing so had become more aware of the great changes that have occurred during this century in attitudes to death, injury, disease and war. At the beginning of the century, ...

Between December 1965 and December 1971, the United States maintained armed forces in Vietnam never less than 180,000 men and women in support of the war. At one time, this commitment exceeded half a million soldiers, sailors, and airmen from both the United States and its allies. Such forces required an extensive medical presence, including 19 neurologists. All but two of the neurologists had ...