Combat burn injury. the Afghanistan and Iraq military campaign experience
Ivchenko, E.V.; Golota, A.S.; Kondratenko, D.G.; Krassiĭ, A.B.
Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal 335(8): 66-70
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9050 PMID: 25546957 Document Number: 676078
The current article briefly reviews the experience of combat burns care obtained in the course of 2001-2013 military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq as it has been covered in the foreign scientific medical publications. The following topics are covered: statistics, the prehospital medical care, aeromedical evacuation, the Burn Center of the US Army Institute of Surgical Research. The new method.of the .initial intravenous infusion rate estimation, so called the "Rule of 10 formula, is marked: At the end, the list of freely available publications summarized the modern combat burns care experience is presented.