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

Autor:	Staruch R; Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK robmtstaruch@gmail.com.; Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK., Naumann DN; Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.; Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK., Wordsworth M; Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK., Jeffery S; Department of Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK., Rickard R; Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	BMJ military health [BMJ Mil Health] 2024 Nov 25; Vol. 170 (6), pp. 501-506. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 25.
DOI:	10.1136/military-2022-002227
Abstrakt:	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. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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