A Casualty of Extraction

A survey of triage systems in combat casualty care for providing a revised system

 Purpose: Triage is a complicated and dynamic process in nature. Moreover, there are many challenges in selecting the required information about the casualties, the wounded, and the type of accident at the time of crisis. Hence, this research was undertaken to present a new strategy for efficiently triaging casualties in the battlefield. Methodology: In this review, two methods of field a...

A children's casualty department.

O11: Casualty Care

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Casualty--a cause for concern.

To those familiar with the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital it may at first seem a little incongruous that a hospital whose past reputation was founded on 'cold orthopaedics' should concern itself with problems of trauma and the casualty department. The reason is not because we are concerned about the little trauma we receive from the surrounding countryside but because all of t...

Implications of combat casualty care for mass casualty events.

Violence fromexplosivesand firearms results inmass casualty events inwhich the injured havemultiple penetrating and soft tissue injuries. Events such as those in Boston,Massachusetts;Newtown,Connecticut;andAurora, Colorado, as well as those in other locations, such as Europe and the Middle East, demonstrate that civilian trauma may at times resemble that seen in a combat setting. As the civilia...