title: The Management of Combat Wounds: The British Military Experience.
abstract: The concept of the military wound is not an easy entity to define as the wounds seen in conflict can be of many types: those caused by recognized or improvised weapon systems may have similarities to civilian wounds as well as the wounds soldiers sustain outside of battle. This article will focus on the current treatment approaches to combat wounds sustained by the deployed UK Armed Forces personnel.
authors: The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.; Department of Wound Healing, Faculty of Health, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
authors: Steven L A
authors: SL
authors: Jeffery
keywords: combat; debridement; dressing; imaging; reconstruction; wound