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The UK Military Trauma System

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The UK military trauma system on contemporary operations has evolved substantially in the last decade, drawing on clinical experience from post-conflict peace-enforcing in Kosovo and combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It has matured so that training, equipment, and clinical guidelines are integrated from point of wounding through to field hospital care, and that clinical practice is rigorously governed from pre-hospital care through to rehabilitation.

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Original illustrations used in this chapter have been previously published in JR Army Med Corps and are used with permission. Blast pathway Fig. 14.3b originally designed by Col. PF Mahoney.

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  1. Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham Research Park, B15 2SQ, Birmingham, UK

    Timothy J. Hodgetts

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  1. Dept. Surgery, Div. Traumatology &, University of Pennsylvania Medical Ctr., Spruce St. 3400, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Adam J. Brooks

  2. , Academic Department of Military Surgery, Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Surrey, GU16 7UJ, United Kingdom

    Jon Clasper

  3. Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Institute of Research & Development, Acad. Dept. of Military Surgery & Trauma, Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Mark Midwinter

  4. Birmingham Research Park, Acad. Dept. of Military Emergency Med., Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Timothy J. Hodgetts

  5. Inst. Research & Development, Dept. Military Anaesthesia, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Peter F. Mahoney

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Hodgetts, T.J. (2011). The UK Military Trauma System. In: Brooks, A., Clasper, J., Midwinter, M., Hodgetts, T., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ryan's Ballistic Trauma. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-124-8_14

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