Ballistic Trauma - Clinical Relevance in Peace & War

Historical overview and epidemiology biophysics and pathophysiology of penetrating injury ballistic and other implications of blast injury wound contamination and antibiotics initial assessment and resuscitation investigations and pre-operative preparation military and civilian triage general principles of wound management limb injury vascular injury amputations spinal injury abdominal and pelvic injury genito-urinary injury chest injury head injury maxillo-facial injury eye injury stabilization and transfer multi-system injury combined injury terrorist injury overview and trends.