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Ballistic helmets – Their design, materials, and performance against traumatic brain injury Kulkarni SG et Al.    Composite Structures 101 (2013) 313–331 Protecting a soldier’s head from injury is critical to function and survivability. Traditionally, combat helmets have been utilized to provide protection against shrapnel and ballistic threats, which have reduced head injuries and fatalities. However, home-made bombs or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have been increasingly used in theatre of operations since the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Traumatic...

Primary blast lung injury prevalence and fatal injuries from explosions: Insights from postmortem computed tomographic analysis of 121 improvised explosive device fatalities SIngleton JAG et all. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;75: S269-S274.   BACKGROUND: Primary blast lung injury (PBLI) is an acknowledged cause of death in explosive blast casualties. In contrast to...

Effect of Initial Projectile Speed on Contamination Distribution in a Lower Extremity Surrogate “Wound Track” Krebsbach MA et All., Military Medicine, 177, 5:573, 2012 ...

Identifying future ‘unexpected’ survivors: a retrospective cohort study of fatal injury patterns in victims of improvised explosive devices Singleton JAG et All.   BMJ Open....

Working toward exposure thresholds for blast-induced traumatic brain injury: thoracic and acceleration mechanisms. Courtney MW et all. Neuroimage, 2011 Jan,54 Suppl 1: S55-61 Les...