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Pelvic Blast Injury

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Although the majority of wartime trauma involves the limbs, it is injuries to the head, torso and junctional haemorrhage from the neck, axilla or groin that are the most life threatening. As haemorrhage is the most common cause of preventable death on the battlefield, it is of considerable research interest (see Chap. 19, Sect. 19.1)

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

    Claire Webster MBChB MRCS RAF & Jon Clasper CBE DPhil DM FRCSEd Col L/RAMC

  2. Academic Department of Military Trauma and Surgery, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK

    Jon Clasper CBE DPhil DM FRCSEd Col L/RAMC

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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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Webster, C., Clasper, J. (2016). Pelvic Blast Injury. 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_23

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