Analgesia has been considered always a vital role in the casualty medical assistant. This opinion is present in Irak and Afghanistan conflicts, too. Since 2005, Spanish military corps has been deployed in the Spanish Military Hospital in Herat (Afghanistan). In this medical facility 30.000 patients (some of them casualties) have been treated, kept an important experience in the treatment of this kind of politrauma. We show a medical report about a military, who is injured by an gunshot and explosive attack suffering traumatic brain injury, ocular lesion, abdominal and leg trauma. Perioperative painkiller treatment is described in this casualty.
RESUMEN El objeto de esta comunicación breve es presentar un caso de fractura pediátrica tratada mediante premisas de Ortopedia de Control del Daño en el segundo escalón quirúrgico español de Camp Arena, Herat, Afganistán. PALABRAS CLAVE: Blast, Fractura pediátrica, Ortopedia de control del daño, ROLE 2. Pediatrics Damage Control Ortopaedic Surgery in Area of Operations SUMMARY: This is case report about a femoral shaft pediatric fracture treated with Orthopaedic Damage Control Means completed at the Second Surgical Echelon in Herat, Afghanistan. We show the benefits of this kind of procedures.
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