The aim of our study is to evaluate results of treating war injuries of colon and rectum, after 10 years. During the war in Croatia, 21 wounded, with colon (19) and rectum (2) injuries, were treated in the Department of Surgery at Nova Gradiska General Hospital from August 1991 to April 1992. Bullet wounds accounted for 57% of the injuries. All patients had other associated injuries. Primary re...

Blood loss in peacetime is mainly due to the normal menstrual cycle women or diseases with surgical intervention. In wartime, blood military personnel a characteristic sign of closed open injury body during internal external bleeding. Access clinical care for wounded injured on battlefield limited and has long delays compared patients peacetime. Most deaths occur within first hour after being w...

Because the goal of military medicine is salvaging the wounded who can return to duty, military medical ethics cannot easily defend devoting scarce resources to those so badly injured that they cannot return to duty. Instead, arguments turn to morale and political obligation to justify care for the seriously wounded. Neither argument is satisfactory. Care for the wounded is not necessary to mai...

0497 T he Battle of Trafalgar was a short-lasting but bloody affair. By the end of the afternoon of 21 October 1805, the French/ Spanish fl eet had lost 4,408 men, and a further 2,545 were wounded while the victorious British force suffered 455 dead and 1,242 wounded [1]. The British fl agship HMS Victory, where Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his life to a sniper's bullet, sustained 56 other death...

The article presents data on blood transfusions at diff erent stages of medical evacuation army and front-line areas during the Great Patriotic War. It is emphasized that in system treatment wounded last war, great importance was placed early transfusion therapy, banked blood, its components preparations, as well substitutes. experience War testifi es to huge role wounded.

Resealing of a disrupted plasma membrane at the micron-diameter range requires Ca(2+)-regulated exocytosis. Repeated membrane disruptions reseal more quickly than the initial wound, and this potentiation of membrane resealing persists for at least 24 hours after the initial wound. Long-term potentiation of membrane resealing requires CREB-dependent gene expression, which is activated by the PKC...

BACKGROUND Wartime stress has been associated with increased late-life mortality of all causes of death. We evaluated whether wounded Finnish World War II veterans who were alive at the age of 55 have increased long-term coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. METHODS Health survey data were recorded in 1980 from 667 men, aged 55 years. Of them 102 had been wounded or injured in action during...

to study the effect of essential oils of medicinal plants on post-harvest stability of fruits quality and decay management of kinnow mandarin, this experiment was carried out as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications. essential oils of thyme, mint, fennel, rosemary, ajowan and cummin at two levels 500 and 750 ml/l were applied to wounded and non-wounded fruits, that ha...