ALLMedicine™ Blast Injuries Center

Dec 10th, 2021 - In the case of a terrorist attack by a "dirty bomb", blast injuries, external irradiation and the incorporation of radioactivity are to be expected. Departing from information about the radiological attack scenario with cesium-137 in the U.S. Nati...

Nov 15th, 2021 - Injury scoring systems can be used for triaging, predicting morbidity and mortality, and prognosis in mass casualty incidents. Recent conflicts and civilian incidents have highlighted the unique nature of blast injuries, exposing deficiencies in c...

Oct 12th, 2021 - Much of the research impacting diagnosis, outcome, and treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) has favored time of consciousness criteria indicative of hemispheric blast focus alone. However, recent animal-based research has widely expanded t...

Aug 30th, 2021 - Blast injuries include the various types of internal and external trauma caused by the impact force of high-speed blast waves with multiple mechanisms involved. Thoracic blast exposure could induce neurotrauma as well, but effective therapies are ...

Aug 27th, 2021 - Cefazolin is a first-line antibiotic to treat infection related to deployment-associated blast injuries. Prior literature demonstrated a 331% increase cefazolin liver area under the curve (AUC) in mice exposed to a survivable blast compared with c...

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.

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...

Jan 20th, 2016 - More than 52,000 soldiers have been injured and 6,800 have been killed during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 1 Blast injuries from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) account for 70% to 79% of combat-related injuries and deaths in these wars.