Injuries from Antitank Mines in Southern Croatia

Radonić, Vedran; Giunio, Lovel; Biočić, Mihovil; Tripković, Andro; Lukšić, Bruno; Primorac, Dragan

doi:10.7205/milmed.169.4.320

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“…To date, clinical information related to these incidents has been limited to a single case series of injuries over a five year period in Croatia [23]. Of the 42 casualties described in that report, six casualties sustained either unilateral or bilateral traumatic amputations of the lower limb and a further four casualties sustained calcaneal injuries.…”

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In-vehicle extremity injuries from improvised explosive devices: current and future foci

Ramasamy

Masouros

Newell

et al. 2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have been epitomized by the insurgents' use of the improvised explosive device against vehicle-borne security forces. These weapons, capable of causing multiple severely injured casualties in a single incident, pose the most prevalent single threat to Coalition troops operating in the region. Improvements in personal protection and medical care have resulted in increasing numbers of casualties surviving with complex lower limb injuries, often leading to long-term disability. Thus, there exists an urgent requirement to investigate and mitigate against the mechanism of extremity injury caused by these devices. This will necessitate an ontological approach, linking molecular, cellular and tissue interaction to physiological dysfunction. This can only be achieved via a collaborative approach between clinicians, natural scientists and engineers, combining physical and numerical modelling tools with clinical data from the battlefield. In this article, we compile existing knowledge on the effects of explosions on skeletal injury, review and critique relevant experimental and computational research related to lower limb injury and damage and propose research foci required to drive the development of future mitigation technologies.

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Section: Current Clinical Focusmentioning

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In-vehicle extremity injuries from improvised explosive devices: current and future foci

Ramasamy

Masouros

Newell

et al. 2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Mines, specifically Anti-Vehicular (AV) Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), are a significant threat for military vehicles and their occupants [1]. In case of a mine detonation under a vehicle, underbody structural rupture can occur resulting into injurious effects caused by fragments, fire, gases, blast overpressure, as well as shock wave propagation and a vertical impulse load.…”

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Simulation of adaptive semi-active magnetorheological seat damper for vehicle occupant blast protection

2013

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This study investigates a lumped-parameter human body model which includes lower leg in seated posture within a quarter-car model for blast injury assessment simulation. To simulate the shock acceleration of the vehicle, mine blast analysis was conducted on a generic land vehicle crew compartment (sand box) structure. For the purpose of simulating human body dynamics with non-linear parameters, a physical model of a lumped-parameter human body within a quarter car model was implemented using multi-body dynamic simulation software. For implementing the control scheme, a skyhook algorithm was made to work with the multi-body dynamic model by running a co-simulation with the control scheme software plug-in. The injury criteria and tolerance levels for the biomechanical effects are discussed for each of the identified vulnerable body regions, such as the relative head displacement and the neck bending moment. The desired objective of this analytical model development is to study the performance of adaptive semi-active magnetorheological damper that can be used for vehicle-occupant protection technology enhancements to the seat design in a mine-resistant military vehicle.

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“…Up until the recent conflicts in the Middle East, clinical information related to under-vehicle mine incidents has been limited to a single case series of injuries over a 5-year period in Croatia 10. Of the 31 survivors described in this study, only limited data were available on the pattern of lower limb injury and there were no data on clinical outcome following injury.…”

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From the battlefield to the laboratory: the use of clinical data analysis in developing models of lower limb blast injury

2013

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A key weapon in the insurgents' armamentarium against coalition and local security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the use of anti-vehicle mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Often directed against vehicle-borne troops, these devices, once detonated, transfer considerable amounts of energy through the vehicle to the occupants. This results in severe lower limb injuries that are frequently limb threatening. Fundamental to designing novel mitigation strategies is a requirement to understand the injury mechanism by developing appropriate injury modelling tools that are underpinned by the analysis of contemporary battlefield casualty data. This article aims to summarise our understanding of the clinical course of lower limb blast injuries from IEDs and its value in developing unique injury modelling test-beds to evaluate and produce the next generation of protective equipment for reducing the devastating effects of blast injury.

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Injuries from Antitank Mines in Southern Croatia

Abstract: Although injuries from antitank mines were ravaging, and frequently fatal, a significant number of patients survived.

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

In-vehicle extremity injuries from improvised explosive devices: current and future foci

In-vehicle extremity injuries from improvised explosive devices: current and future foci

Simulation of adaptive semi-active magnetorheological seat damper for vehicle occupant blast protection

From the battlefield to the laboratory: the use of clinical data analysis in developing models of lower limb blast injury

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