EMS providers, as well as police officers and firefighters who are likely to assist in triage and moving patients to a casualty collection point, should have a basic understanding of the four types of blast injury. 1. Primary blast injury Primary blast injury is due to the supersonic o...
In the 4623 blast episodes examined, mild TBI was the most frequent single injury type (10.8%) and with extremity injuries combined, the extremities was the area most commonly injured. Surface wounds of the extremities comprised 27.6% of all injuries. When examining service discharge in 4255 ...
Combat-related blasts have caused the majority of injuries in Operation Iraqi Freedom with traumatic brain injury (TBI) emerging as a preeminent injury. The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the scope of combat-related blast injuries and the career performance outcomes of service personnel...
EST database search Nucleotides from 1 to 500 of the human transposon L1.2 (GenBank accession no. M80343) were used to search for LINE-1 chimeric transcripts in the human expressed sequence tag (EST) database (GenBank) by using the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) program. To ...
What could overexertion under the influence of a fatigue-masking drug lead to? muscle injury, a fall or other accident, heat exhaustion What effects could occur in athletes as the drug wears off after use? developing paranoia, suffering from loss of energy and psychological depression ...
August 31, 2008 Buy It For The Name, Keep It For The Cute: Skummis Plush Creature I don't know what a filur is in Swedish besides a house music band and a military drone plane designed by Saab. But I do know what Skummis are: justsocuteiwannaeatthemup! Whether it's a blobby...
You might think you're being tickled even when no one else is around, or you may feel like insects are crawling on or under your skin. You could feel a blast of hot air on your face that isn't real. Possible causes include:
Blast injury CBRNE Terrorism Active shooter Medical countermeasures 5.1Unique Vulnerabilities of Children Although pediatric patients are viewed as a unique population, they are the population: it has been estimated that more than 25% of the U.S. population fits within the pediatric age range. In ...
Chondroblastoma This tumor may also be called a calcifying giant cell tumor or Codman tumor. This is a rare type of benign bone tumor that usually starts at the growth plates toward the end of your thigh (femur), upper arm (humerus), or shin (tibia). It usually affects teens and young...
You might think you're being tickled even when no one else is around, or you may feel like insects are crawling on or under your skin. You could feel a blast of hot air on your face that isn't real. Possible causes include: