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How Guns Work

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This chapter is written for clinical staff with little or no previous exposure to firearms. Although one must “treat the wound and not the weapon,” acknowledgment of how firearms work should lead to a better understanding of how bullets and other projectiles cause injury.

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  1. Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK

    Peter F. Mahoney (Defence Professor Anaesthesia and Critical Care)

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  1. Mark Byers
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  2. Kerry Starkey
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  3. Peter F. Mahoney
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Correspondence to Peter F. Mahoney .

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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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Byers, M., Starkey, K., Mahoney, P.F. (2011). How Guns Work. 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_4

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