Liver Injuries in Imposed War Casualties

War liver injuries.

AIM To provide a retrospective analysis of our results and experience in primary surgical treatment of subjects with war liver injuries. METHODS From July 1991 to December 1999, 204 subjects with war liver injuries were treated. A total of 82.8% of the injured were with the liver injuries combined with the injuries of other organs. In 93.7%, the injuries were caused by fragments of explosive ...

Penicillin: early trials in war casualties.

Counting Casualties in the War on Prisoners

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, numerous prisons in the United States have operated in a state of crisis.1 The sheer number of persons incarcerated during these years overwhelmed the capacity to safely and humanely house and administer to the prisoners placed under correctional control. Policies of mass incarceration that were pursued over these decades created drastic shortages of space and res...

Imposed cost induced by traffic injuries on society in 2021

  Background and Aim: Due to the importance of the cost of traffic  injuries, in addition to mental and social suffering, as well as the increasing trend of accident statistics and the lack of information about the cost estimation based on a willingness to pay model, this research was conducted on the findings of traffic injuries in 2021. Materials and Methods: The research was done by descr...

Environmental casualties of the war on drugs.

C hemical control methods against illicit drug crops in producer countries have long been a fixture of the 20-year U.S. war on drugs. In 1998, President Bill Clinton unveiled *an unprecedented $16 billion antidrug initiative that induded a generous allotment for applying herbicides to crops in drug-producing nations. The U.S. initiative follows protocols outlined in the 1988 United Nations (UN)...

War Wounds and Air Raid Casualties

Articles republished from The ' British Medical Journal '. Contributed by St. J. D. Buxton, E. M. Cowell, C. Frankau, G. E. Gask, A. T. Hart, G. Jefferson, W. A. Lethem, D. D. Logan, P. H. Mitchiner, G. E. IMeligan, C. M. Page, J. Rickman, C. Seeley, G. Gordon-Taylor, J. M. Vaughan, J. M. Weddell, M. B. Wright. 1939. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xii plus 256. Illustrated. Price...