ALLMedicine™ Blast Injuries Center

Jul 27th, 2022 - Chest trauma remains an issue for health services for both severe and apparently mild trauma management. Severe chest trauma is associated with high mortality and is considered liable for 25% of mortality in multiple traumas. Moreover, mild trauma...

May 24th, 2022 - Blast polytrauma is among the most serious mechanisms of injury confronted by medical providers. There are currently no specific studies or guidelines that define risk factors for mortality in the context of pediatric blast injuries or describe pe...

May 6th, 2022 - Extremity trauma is the most common battlefield injury, resulting in a high frequency of combat-related extremity wound infections (CEWIs). As these infections are associated with substantial morbidity and may impact wounded warriors long after in...

Apr 27th, 2022 - To examine the radiological images of children with musculoskeletal injuries and accompanying organ injuries caused by explosions to determine the differences and frequency of injury types and to emphasise the importance of radiology in war injuri...

Mar 21st, 2022 - The armed conflict in the Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused close to 12,000 deaths. One of the most lethal weapons in armed conflicts is the high explosive hand grenade. The study aimed to describe the epidemiology, pres...

Jul 27th, 2022 - Chest trauma remains an issue for health services for both severe and apparently mild trauma management. Severe chest trauma is associated with high mortality and is considered liable for 25% of mortality in multiple traumas. Moreover, mild trauma...

Feb 16th, 2021 - Concussion Syndrome (CS) and TBI are common injuries producing temporary and long-term damage to impact brain function. Symptoms are sometimes transient, sometimes long-term depending on severity and/or repetitive damage. Signs varying from recurr...

Jan 27th, 2021 - Many patients suffer from devastating injuries to vascularized composite tissues. Vascularized composite tissues are blocs of functional tissue that can contain multiple tissue types such as bone, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, tendons, ligaments,...

Jul 9th, 2019 - Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a common occurrence from roadside blasts of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Like civilian TBI, blast-related TBI can result from mechanical forces in which objects in motion strike the head or the head is fo...

Oct 24th, 2018 - Hand and forearm pain secondary to fracture, laceration, dislocation, infection, and blast injury is a common issue in the emergency department (ED). Pain control is particularly important in these patients as they frequently require manipulation ...

Jul 21st, 2018 - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is now recognized as a significant health issue that impacts both activeduty service members and veterans. Blast injuries sustained in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to a rising incidence of TBI in the DoD.

Feb 9th, 2018 - With the increasing use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, explosions involving these devices are a growing concern because they can cause serious injuries. One such incident, described by Elizabeth Ackley, MD, of the University of Colorado at Den.

Feb 9th, 2018 - With the increasing use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, explosions involving these devices are a growing concern because they can cause serious injuries. One such incident, described by Elizabeth Ackley, MD, of the University of Colorado at Den.

May 5th, 2017 - Many military service members with concussive blast mild traumatic brain (mTBI) experience evolution, rather than resolution, of symptoms from 1 to 5 years, a new study suggests, and the process may be driven more by psychiatric symptoms than by c...

May 5th, 2017 - Many military service members with concussive blast mild traumatic brain (mTBI) experience evolution, rather than resolution, of symptoms from 1 to 5 years, a new study suggests, and the process may be driven more by psychiatric symptoms than by c...