Injuries during Afghanistan civil war

Our experience of injuries during recent Afghanistan civil war is presented. These were more bomb, missile and mine blast injuries and less gun shot and stab injuries. Lower limb injuries were most common. Small intestine was commonly injured viscera. There were less amputations due to availability of the vascular surgeon. External fixatures were found to be the most useful for the fixation of long bone fractures

Explosion injuries in Kuwait: review of 217 patients

The treatment of explosion injuries to the extremities in 217 patients at Al-Razi Orthopaedic Hospital, Kuwait, is reviewed. The data are presented and discussed. The patients were studied with respect to age, sex, nationality, type and extent of injury and surgical treatment. An emphasis is placed on radical surgical debridement and early soft tissue cover

Lesiones producidas por explosion en atentados terroristas / Injuries produced by explosion in terrorist transgressions

Siendo testigos del aumento desproporcionado del numero de atentados terroristas mediante detonacion de explosivos en lugares publicos el ultimo ano, y del problema de tipo medico que ello conlleva, por la gran afluencia de politraumatizados remitidos a nuestros hospitales no siempre preparados para resolver tales situaciones hemos querido en este trabajo analizar la fisiopatologia de la lesion producida por explosion y la experiencia en tres de los hospitales universitarios de la capital (Hospital Militar Central, Hospital San Rafael, y Hospital de Kennedy) como muestra representativa se recolectaron 107 casos, victimas del atentado terrorista perpretado contra las instalaciones del DAS, el 6 de dicimebre de 1989, variedad de lesiones encontradas y de su magnitud, cuyos resultados se exponen en el presente estudio