Understanding progressive tissue loss and wound burden in combat casualties: lessons learnt for future operational capability
Robert Staruch, D N Naumann, M Wordsworth, S Jeffery, R Rickard · 2023
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Description
Robert Staruch and four co-authors wrote an article in two thousand twenty-four on tissue loss in combat casualties. Progressive tissue loss has complicated limb wounds in recent conflicts. It can leave a shorter residual limb and can change how rehabilitation goes.
The authors say the burden of wounds in combat is hard to measure. Data sets are of poor quality and lack the detail needed for close analysis. Their article sets out the main hurdles in counting that burden. It also proposes simple steps to improve how data are captured in future. Better records, they argue, would help plan care and support for the war-wounded. The piece is a review and call for better data, not a trial.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Robert Staruch, D N Naumann, M Wordsworth, S Jeffery, R Rickard |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |