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This book is designed as an easy to read reference and practical guide to the management of combat extremity injuries, which account for a high percentage of the injuries sustained in recent and current conflicts. The surgical techniques appropriate to the full range of extremity injuries and some other frequent injuries, such as trauma to the spine and pelvis, are clearly described with the aid of helpful illustrations. In each chapter a “bottom line up front” approach is adopted, providing key messages first; a further important feature is the emphasis placed on case-based information and lessons learned from practice. Care has been taken to ensure that the advice provided is straightforward and in line with military clinical practice guidelines.   This guide will be relevant to all physicians working in forward surgical teams, combat surgical hospitals, or the “Charlie Med”. The authors are without exception experienced surgeons who have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan at least once, and the editors are ideally suited to their task: Dr. Lawrence Bone has been an orthopaedic and general surgical trauma surgeon for more than 30 years and has had military training and experience in combat casualty care, while Dr. Christiaan Mamczak is an Attending Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in the United States Navy and has served as Head Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at a NATO Multinational Medical Unit in Afghanistan.

War wounds --- Surgery, Military --- Surgery. --- Military surgery --- Medicine, Military --- War injuries --- Wounds and injuries --- War casualties --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Trauma. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Traumatic Surgery. --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Orthopedics. --- Traumatology. --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Surgery --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia

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This book presents carefully selected case reports that document some of the most important lessons learned at Ziv Medical Center, the northernmost Israeli hospital responsible for the medical care and support of wounded and patients from the Syrian civil war. The aim is to provide practitioners with new knowledge on effective ways of dealing with the emergencies encountered in the context of such conflicts. The case reports cover in particular the specialties of Trauma and Critical Care, Orthopedics, and Surgery, but also relate to Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Psychiatric Care. Some of the cases of trauma are of a nature not previously encountered by Western medicine, and include instances in which multidisciplinary care played a vital role. Featuring many informative illustrations, the book will be of value for all who work in emergency and military medicine and related disciplines, from novices to the more experienced.

Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Orthopedics. --- Traumatology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Traumatic Surgery. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Emergency Medicine. --- War wounds. --- War injuries --- Surgery, Military --- Wounds and injuries --- War casualties --- Trauma. --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Surgery --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia

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As long as humans have lived together on the planet there have been wars, andinjured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death. But how do we do it, and what happens next? Mixing vivid and compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights into the frontline of medicine, this book is about how far we have come in saving, healing and restoring the human body. But what are the costs involved in this hardest of journeys back from the brink?

Medicine, Military --- War wounds --- Veterans --- Afghan War, 2001 --- -Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- -War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Medical care of veterans --- Veterans' benefits --- Veterans' rights --- War injuries --- Surgery, Military --- Wounds and injuries --- War casualties --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- War --- Treatment. --- Medical care. --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- -Afghan War, 2001 --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Afghanistan. --- United Kingdom. --- Great Britain --- Isle of Man

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Modern weapons and high-energy accidents inflict devastating damage to soft tissue and bone. As a result, both primary treatment and late limb reconstruction present a difficult surgical challenge. This book is designed to meet the continued need to re-learn the principles of treatment of complex war injuries to the extremities in order to minimize post-traumatic and post-treatment complications and to optimize functional recovery.  Most of the chapters in the book are based on the unique experience gained in the treatment of military personnel who have suffered modern combat trauma and civilian victims of terror attacks at a single, large level 1 trauma center. The remaining chapters present the experience of leading international authorities in the field of trauma and reconstructive surgery. A staged treatment protocol is presented, ranging from primary damage control, including the use of external fracture stabilization, through to definitive functional limb reconstruction by means of various internal and external fracture fixation methods.  The organization of medical aid, anesthesiology, diagnostic imaging, and infection prophylaxis also receive detailed attention.  The management of potential complications such as delayed unions, non-unions, and osteomyelitis is reviewed, and controversies in limb salvage are considered.  Primary and late limb amputations are fully discussed, and a special chapter is devoted to the challenging dilemma of limb salvage versus amputation in the treatment of limbs at risk.  This well-illustrated book will be of value both to beginners and to experts in the field of trauma, including orthopedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, vascular surgeons, and military medical personnel.

Extremities -- Injuries. --- War wounds -- Treatment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- War. --- Wounds and injuries -- Therapy. --- War wounds --- Body Regions --- Diseases --- Anatomy --- Extremities --- Wounds and Injuries --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Wounds & Injuries --- Treatment --- Extremities (Anatomy) --- War wounds. --- Wounds and injuries --- Treatment. --- War injuries --- Limbs (Anatomy) --- Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Orthopedics. --- Plastic surgery. --- Traumatology. --- Vascular surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Traumatic Surgery. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Vascular Surgery. --- Plastic Surgery. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Surgery, Military --- War casualties --- Trauma. --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Surgery. --- Vascular surgery --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Surgery, Primitive --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Emergency medicine

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In this investigation of the treatment of battle trauma in antiquity, 'treatment' is used in a double sense, both as actual medical treatment and literary 'treatment' in non-medical sources. Part I deals with the practical, medical aspects of the topic: the types of wounds likely to result from a battle, their surgical and pharmacological treatment, the question of medical services in ancient armies, medical terminology and the availability of medical knowledge. Part II discusses the use of scenes of wounding and wound treatment in literature, and Part III is a survey of the archaeological evidence. This is the first monograph to examine the topic in all its different aspects; it should be of interest to classicists, medical historians and military historians.

War wounds --- Surgery, Military --- Medical technology --- Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Medicine, Military --- Blessures de guerre --- Chirurgie militaire --- Technologie médicale --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- Médecine militaire --- Treatment --- History --- History. --- Traitement --- Histoire --- Technologie médicale --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- Médecine militaire --- War injuries --- Wounds and injuries --- War casualties --- Military surgery --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- War --- Health care technology --- Health technology --- Technology --- Treatment&delete& --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- Medical technology. --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Medicine, Military. --- Surgery, Military. --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Medicine, Ancient --- Treatment. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy