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ReviewBMJ military health2024

Understanding progressive tissue loss and wound burden in combat casualties: lessons learnt for future operational capability.

Robert Staruch, D N Naumann, M Wordsworth, S Jeffery, R Rickard

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Review in BMJ military health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Robert StaruchDepartment of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK robmtstaruch@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1718-2341
D N NaumannAcademic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2243-2325
M WordsworthDepartment of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
S JefferyDepartment of Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
R RickardAcademic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding tissue loss following injury is important due to its prevalence among the war-wounded and the impact it has on subsequent treatment and rehabilitation. Progressive tissue loss is a type of tissue loss that has complicated extremity injury in recent conflicts. It has resulted in more proximal residual limb lengths and has influenced rehabilitation. Quantifying wound burden in combat casualties remains a challenge due to poor quality of data sets that lack the capacity for detailed analysis. The aims of this article are to outline the current hurdles in attempting to quantify wound burden in combat casualties and to propose simple interventions to improve data capture for future analysis.

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Military PersonnelHumansWarfareWounds and InjuriesPlastic & reconstructive surgeryTrauma managementWOUND MANAGEMENT

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PMID38053264
PMCPMC11671958

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