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Blast Injury Science and Engineering A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers /

This useful book helps readers develop and strengthen their understanding of the basic science, engineering and medicine behind blast injuries. The multi-disciplinary team of authors bring together their knowledge to give detailed descriptions of how these basic approaches can be used to further the...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bull, Anthony M. J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Clasper, Jon. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mahoney, Peter F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Emergency medicine.
Traumatology.
Emergency Medicine.
Traumatic Surgery.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21867-0
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Basic Science and Engineering
  • 1. The fundamentals of blast physics
  • 2. Biomechanics in blast
  • 3. Behaviour of materials
  • 4. Blast Loading of Cells
  • 5. Biological Tissue Response
  • Part 2. Weapon Effects and the Human
  • 6. Blast Injury Mechanism
  • Section 3. Principles of Investigating and Modelling Blast and Blast Mitigation
  • 7. The examination of post-blast scenes
  • 8. Clinical Forensic Investigation of the 2005 London Suicide Bombings
  • 9. Modelling the blast environment and relating this to clinical injury- Experience from the 7/7 Inquest
  • 10. The mortality review panel: a report on the deaths on operations of UK Service personnel 2002-2013
  • 11. Physical Models- Tissue Simulants.-12. Physical Models- Organ models for primary blast
  • 13. In Vivo Models of blast injury
  • 14. Modelling Blast brain injury
  • 15. Military wound ballistics base study: Development of a Skull/Brain Model
  • 16. Surrogates of human injury
  • 17. Computational methods in continuum mechanics
  • 18. Energised fragments: bullets and fragment simulating projectiles
  • Part 4. Applications of blast injury research: Solving clinical problems
  • 19. Coagulopathy and inflammation: an overview of blast effects
  • 20. Foot and Ankle Blast Injuries
  • 21. Traumatic Amputation
  • 22. Testing and development of mitigation systems for tertiary blast
  • 23. Pelvic blast injury
  • 24. Behind Armour blunt trauma (BABT)
  • 25. Blast Injury to the Spine
  • 26. Primary Blast Lung Injury
  • 27. Regional effec ts of explosive devices: The neck
  • 28. Optimising the anatomical coverage provided by military body Armour systems
  • 29. Blast injuries of the Eye
  • 30. Hearing damage through blast
  • 31. Peripheral Nerve Injuries.

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