s of War Surgery prepared by the Division of Surgery -burgeon-Ueneral s Urhce, St. Louis, U. b. A.: C. V. Mosley Company. Price 4s. These abstracts were collected when America entered the war, the object being to place the surgical work which had been done by the various belligerents in a handy form in the hands of surgical instructors and surgical chiefs of war hospitals. It was found that the...

Abstract: Aim: Wound is a fragile and complex injury which can be as simple minor cut to the deep lesions traumatic gash. Depending on patient’s internal external conditions, wounds progress backward or forward. Acute hemorrhage wound infections are main cause of loss life in critical conditions war field accidents. Innovation: BioFibGel bandage/dressing green nanotechnology based care product ...

The immediate effects depend on the size, shape, type, velocity and track of the missile. A high velocity rifle or machine-gun bullet entering the chest through an intercostal space and making its way out through a posterior space may occasion, apart from the initial shock, little disability and with luck no complications. A small more slowly moving vulnerant may produce a punctured wound such ...

During the 4-year period (1991-1994) there were 127 consecutive patients with missile brain wound treated at the Division of Neurosurgery. They sustained brain injury in the region of east Slavonia, Baranya and north Bosnia, and were admitted mostly during the homeland defensive war in Croatia (1991-1992). Analysing the wounded, we divided them in two groups: "succumbed" (59 wounded) and "survi...

FROM Sicily into Italy and onwards during many months as the terrain and nature of the fighting changed so to some extent has the type of wound and the surgical problem involved, although fairly constant throughout. Types of wound.-Military ophthalmic surgery is at present chiefly concerned with penetrating wounds due to high velocity fragment missiles resulting from high explosive action, the ...

Wounds have existed since the beginning of time. The interest in this subject has been stimulated in the main by conflict and war that have necessitated the development of new ways of managing wounds. In the 1960s the development of new materials that maintained a moist environment in the wound area encouraged a number of commercial companies to produce a wide variety of new materials with phys...

Aims: This article is designed to demonstrate the problems of infection in a time without antibiotics and to raise awareness and stimulate discussion about the future and the next steps for managing antibiotic resistance. Methods: Access was gained to original journals and letters of three doctors, who joined the army working as medical officers during the First World War. Transcripts of interv...

In the multiethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats and Muslims, attacked by the Yugoslav army and Serbs, had to employ rationally their poorly provisioned civilian health services so that they could respond to the extremely numerous and prompt needs of war conditions. The health services in the areas controlled by Croats and Muslims had to be reorganized twice because of sudden changes of wartim...