Chapter 34: Conflict Surgery

The articles below explain further the clinical and scientific basis of the ‘golden hour’ and the rationale for prompt evacuation. Additional articles describe the broad types of injury during conflict and discuss the roles of resuscitation and surgical strategies for war injuries. The last few articles concentrate on the physical basis of blast injuries and include detailed descriptions of injury patterns associated with explosives.

Journal articles

https://oce.ovid.com/article/01586154-201801000-00002/HTML/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2016/03000/Extending_the_golden_hour__Partial_resuscitative.3.aspx/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2017/06001/Deployed_skills_training_for_whole_blood.15.aspx/ (paid)

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/183/11-12/e462/5042808/ (free)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Fulltext/2008/02000/Combat_Wounds_in_Operation_Iraqi_Freedom_and.6.aspx/ (free)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2011/07001/Died_of_Wounds_on_the_Battlefield__Causation_and.2.aspx/ (paid)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579588/ (free)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2013/08002/Injury_pattern_and_mortality_of_noncompressible.27.aspx/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/shockjournal/Fulltext/2014/05000/Resuscitative_Endovascular_Balloon_Occlusion_of.4.aspx/ (free)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Citation/1992/07000/_DAMAGE_CONTROL___AN_APPROACH_FOR_IMPROVED.79.aspx/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2010/06000/Prolonged_Permissive_Hypotensive_Resuscitation_Is.22.aspx/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2014/03000/Hemostatic_resuscitation_is_neither_hemostatic_nor.1.aspx/ (paid)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tme.12093/ (paid)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Citation/2019/01000/Future_strategies_for_remote_damage_control.24.aspx/ (paid)

https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/155/4/265.long/ (paid)

https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/135/2/58.full.pdf/ (free)

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/1998/12000/Physiologic_Responses_to_Primary_Blast.1.aspx/ (paid)

https://academic.oup.com/bjs/article/98/2/168/6148525/ (free)

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/3/8/e003130.full.pdf/ (free)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3061094/ (free)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020138317304382/ (free)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5691184/ (free)

https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/164/2/72.long/ (free)

https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/159/suppl_1/i1/ (paid)