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Synthesizing the Evidence Base to Enhance Coordination between Humanitarian Mine Action and Emergency Care for Casualties of Explosive Ordnance and Explosive Weapons: A Scoping Review.
Prehosp Disaster Med
January 2025
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonUSA.
Background: Humanitarian mine action (HMA) stakeholders have an organized presence with well-resourced medical capability in many conflict and post-conflict settings. Humanitarian mine action has the potential to positively augment local trauma care capacity for civilian casualties of explosive ordnance (EO) and explosive weapons (EWs). Yet at present, few strategies exist for coordinated engagement between HMA and the health sector to support emergency care system strengthening to improve outcomes among EO/EW casualties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWounds from gunshots and other explosive devices are a source of loss of substances directly or secondary to a well- conducted debridement. In addition, these types of wounds are by definition contaminated. The major challenge in this context for any surgeon remains coverage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDocumenting the human cost of incendiary weapons: Establishment of a global registry.
Burns
January 2025
International Blast Injury Network: Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective (EXTRACCT), University of Southampton, UK; Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address:
Development of a Perioperative Risk Mortality Calculator for Humanitarian Surgical Care.
World J Surg
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Background: Risk models to predict perioperative mortality rates (POMR) are critical to surgical quality improvement yet are not widely adapted for use in humanitarian and low-resource settings (LRS). We developed a POMR and corresponding nomogram and calculator for use in humanitarian surgical care.
Methods: Electronic health record data from a high-income academic medical center from 2015 to 2019 were retrospectively extracted, selecting variables and operations specific to LRS.
Evaluating Injury and Illness Trends in Federal and Postal Service Employees Using Workers' Compensation Claims Data 2007-2022.
J Occup Environ Med
November 2024
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand federal workplace injury/illness trends.
Methods: Over 1.5 million federal and Postal Service employee workers' compensation (WC) claims from 2007 to 2022 were linked to employment data and analyzed.
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