Hunterian Lecture 1980: A Computerised Data Retrieval System for the Wounds of War – The Northern Ireland Casualties

Owen-Smith, M. S.

doi:10.1136/jramc-127-01-16

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“…u~Onel Owen-Smith [1] in the late 1970s while he was Professor of Military Surgery, to fulfill a need for accurate analysis of Wounds sustained in action, their treatment, and the end result. Because of the nature of the conflict in Northern Ireland forensic data is obtained on each incident.…”

Section: Sources Of Information and Methods Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship of blast loading to death and injury from explosion

Mellor

1992

World j. surg.

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Death and injury from explosion are becoming ever more frequent. In this study an attempt is made to relate the blast loading suffered by individual victims of explosions to the injuries sustained. It includes 828 servicemen killed or injured by explosions in Northern Ireland. Two hundred sixteen servicemen were killed, most of them before any assistance could be rendered. In those exposed to a higher blast loading, blast lung was common. Those exposed to lower blast loading died primarily of head injuries. Body armour was worn by 90% of the servicemen and probably reduced the number of fatal secondary missile injuries.

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Section: Sources Of Information and Methods Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship of blast loading to death and injury from explosion

Mellor

1992

World j. surg.

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“…Bellamy predicted that 46% of wounded combatants would survive for a week without treatment (assuming a 20% mortality for infected soft tissue wounds) 14. In Northern Ireland 60% of wounds were deemed “minor.”17 Danon et al reported that 68% of the wounds sustained in the Lebanon were “light.”18 The death rate in hospital during the Crimean war and American civil war, in which wounded soldiers did not have intravenous fluids, antibiotics, or modern surgery, are 16.7% and 14.1% respectively. The survival rates of all casualties were 67.6% and 70.4% respectively 13.…”

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Epidemiological approach to surgical management of the casualties of war

Coupland

1994

BMJ

148

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“…The HACS9 captured UK military personnel predominately injured by hostile means during Operation BANNER for the period from 1969 to 1997. This system was developed to inform the medical provision in support of military operations during ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland.…”

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confidence: 99%