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Foot and Ankle Blast Injuries

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Modern military conflict has been characterised by the insurgents’ use of anti-vehicle (AV) mines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Frequently directed against vehicle borne troops, these devices, once detonated, transmit vast amounts of energy through the vehicle to the occupants. This leads to severe lower limbs injuries that are very often limb threatening. In order to drive the development of novel mitigation strategies, there is a fundamental requirement to understand the underlying injury mechanism. In this chapter, the clinical course of lower limb blast injuries from IEDs is summarised.

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Arul Ramasamy MA, PhD, FRCS(Tr+Orth)

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Anthony M. J. Bull

  2. Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Frimley, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Jon Clasper

  3. The ICT Centre, Birmingham Research Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Peter F. Mahoney

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Ramasamy, A. (2016). Foot and Ankle Blast Injuries. In: Bull, A., Clasper, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Blast Injury Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21867-0_20

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