Traumatic cardiac arrest is known to have a poor outcome, and some authors have stated
that attempted resuscitation from traumatic cardiac arrest is futile. However, advances in …

The types of explosive devices used in warfare and the pattern of war wounds have
changed in recent years. There has, for instance, been a considerable increase in high …

BACKGROUND: Low-titer group O whole blood (LTOWB) resuscitation is becoming
common in both military and civilian settings and may represent the ideal resuscitation …

Background Historically, reported survival from traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) was extremely
low. More recent publications have recorded survival to discharge of up to 8%. This …

Introduction The Afghanistan war (2003–2014) was a unique period in military medicine.
Many service personnel survived injuries of a severity that would have been fatal at any …

Objectives Combat casualty care is a complex system involving multiple clinicians, medical
interventions and casualty transfers. Improving the performance of this system requires …

Introduction: Clinical outcomes following trauma depend on the extent of injury and the
host's response to injury, along with medical care. We hypothesized that dynamic networks …

Objectives To evaluate the functional and mental health status of severely injured traumatic
amputees from the United Kingdom military at the completion of their rehabilitation pathway …

Objectives To identify potentially fatal injury patterns in explosive blast fatalities in order to
focus research and mitigation strategies, to further improve survival rates from blast trauma …

Background Our purpose was to validate the performance of the ISS, NISS, RTS and TRISS
scales as predictors of mortality in a population of trauma patients in a Latin American …