Human skin-like composite materials for blast induced injury mitigation

A Chanda, R Graeter - Journal of Composites Science, 2018 - mdpi.com
Armors and military grade personal protection equipment (PPE) materials to date are bulky
and are not designed to effectively mitigate blast impacts. In the current work, a human skin …

Environment at the time of injury determines injury patterns in pelvic blast

CE Webster, J Clasper, I Gibb… - BMJ Military …, 2019 - militaryhealth.bmj.com
The use of explosives by terrorists, or during armed conflict, remains a major global threat.
Increasingly, these events occur in the civilian domain, and can potentially lead to injury and …

Case suitability for definitive through knee amputation following lower extremity blast trauma: analysis of 146 combat casualties, 2008–2010

JAG Singleton, NM Walker, IE Gibb… - BMJ Military …, 2014 - militaryhealth.bmj.com
Introduction Analysis of recent UK Armed Forces combat casualty data has highlighted a
significant number of through joint traumatic amputations (TAs), most commonly through …

Traumatic Amputation

IA Rankin, JAG Singleton - Blast Injury Science and Engineering: A Guide …, 2023 - Springer
Blast-mediated traumatic amputations (TAs) have been a prevalent feature of recent conflicts
in Iraq and Afghanistan, due to the increased use of the Improvised Explosive Device (see …