Firearm-related injuries are caused by a wide variety of weapons and projectiles. The kinetic
energy of the penetrating projectile defines its ability to disrupt and displace tissue, whereas …

Purpose To describe the history of eye injuries and the consequent evolution of eye
protection. Methods A comprehensive search of Medline and the grey literature using the …

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

There has been a reported increase in combat-related head, face, and neck (HFN) injuries
among service personnel wearing combat body armor (CBA) that have deployed to Iraq and …

Maxillofacial firearm-related injuries vary in extent and severity because of the
characteristics and behaviour of the projectile (s), and the complexity of the anatomical …

The study objectives were to characterize maxillofacial injuries and assess the safety of in-
theater facial fracture repair in US military personnel with severe combat trauma from Iraq …

Introduction Modern body armour clearly reduces injury incidence and severity, but
evidence to actually objectively demonstrate this effect is scarce. Although the Joint Theatre …

Ballistic maxillofacial trauma in the UK is fortunately relatively rare, and generally involves
low velocity handguns and shotguns. Civilian terrorist events have, however, shown that all …

Abstract Introduction The recent Afghanistan conflict caused a higher proportion of
casualties with facial injuries due to both the increasing effectiveness of combat body …

Purpose Ocular blast injuries in the military setting are particularly associated with significant
maxillofacial trauma and/or brain injury. The opportunity to perform a comprehensive …