TY - JOUR
T1 - Shaping the military wound: issues surrounding the reconstruction of injured servicemen at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.
AU - Evriviades, D
AU - Jeffery, S
AU - Cubison, T
AU - Lawton, G
AU - Gill, Martin
AU - Mortiboy, D
PY - 2011/1/27
Y1 - 2011/1/27
N2 - The conflict in Afghanistan has produced injuries similar to those produced from military conflicts for generations. What distinguishes the modern casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan from those of other conflicts is the effectiveness of modern field medical care that has led to individuals surviving with injuries, which would have been immediately fatal even a few years ago. These patients present several challenges to the reconstructive surgeon. These injured individuals present early challenges of massive soft-tissue trauma, unstable physiology, complex bony and soft-tissue defects, unusual infections, limited reconstructive donor sites, peripheral nerve injuries and traumatic amputations. Late challenges to rehabilitation include the development of heterotopic ossification in amputation stumps. This paper outlines the approach taken by the reconstructive team at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in managing these most difficult of reconstructive challenges.
AB - The conflict in Afghanistan has produced injuries similar to those produced from military conflicts for generations. What distinguishes the modern casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan from those of other conflicts is the effectiveness of modern field medical care that has led to individuals surviving with injuries, which would have been immediately fatal even a few years ago. These patients present several challenges to the reconstructive surgeon. These injured individuals present early challenges of massive soft-tissue trauma, unstable physiology, complex bony and soft-tissue defects, unusual infections, limited reconstructive donor sites, peripheral nerve injuries and traumatic amputations. Late challenges to rehabilitation include the development of heterotopic ossification in amputation stumps. This paper outlines the approach taken by the reconstructive team at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in managing these most difficult of reconstructive challenges.
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2010.0237
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2010.0237
M3 - Article
C2 - 21149357
SN - 1471-2954
SN - 1471-2970
VL - 366
SP - 219
EP - 230
JO - Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences
JF - Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences
IS - 1562
ER -