Publications by authors named "D M G Bowley"
What is the medical requirement for a quick release system in a body armour vest?
BMJ Mil Health
November 2024
A quick release system is a method by which personal armour can be rapidly doffed by the disconnection of structural components using little force. There are slight variations in the design of quick release systems available in different personal armour systems worldwide, including the position of the activation device, how many points on the vest are released at one time and how many constituent parts the vest dismantles into. Limited evidence exists, however, to justify each of these differences.
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- The study aimed to establish international consensus on optimal Textbook Outcomes for patients undergoing emergency laparotomies, focusing on both trauma and non-trauma cases.
- A modified Delphi exercise was conducted with 337 participants globally, which involved multiple rounds to refine the outcome criteria based on expert and patient input.
- The agreed outcomes include short-term goals, such as being discharged without serious complications, and long-term goals, which involve restoring quality of life one year post-surgery; these findings will need clinical validation.
Background: Sexual violence is a grave human rights violation and a serious global public health challenge. Rates of reporting of sexual violence and subsequent passage of cases through the criminal justice system are poor all over the world. The presence or absence of anogenital injury following sexual assault may influence survivors in their willingness to report a crime, and law enforcement officers and jurors in their decision making regarding the laying of charges and/or conviction of offenders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Surgical site infections (SSIs) represent ~ 20% of all hospital-acquired infections in surgical patients and are associated with prolonged hospital stay, admission to intensive care, and mortality. We conducted a systematic review with economic and environmental models to assess whether triclosan-coated sutures (Plus Sutures) provide benefits over non-coated sutures in the reduction of SSI risk.
Methods: Searches were conducted in fifteen databases.