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From battlefield to bedside
10 January 2011

ams_webJohn Duncan considers the debt that civilian practice owes to military surgery

Civilian practice has benefited from the experience of military surgery for centuries. Over the last eight years British medical teams have been serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and the intensity of these engagements has meant that a generation of military doctors has become expert in the management of trauma.

 
Surgical lessons of war
01 January 2011

Jon Clasper reviews the impact military surgery has had on modern day wound treatment

 
Teamwork & ballistic trauma
17 January 2011

Alasdair Macmillan reflects on the importance of establishing priorities within a surgical team when deployed to a war zone

 
Approaches to pelvic trauma
17 January 2011

Lower abdominal, pelvic and urological trauma carry particular challenges for battlefield surgeons. Following experience in Afghanistan, Mark Mantle and Graham Sunderland consider approaches

 
Rebuilding shattered lives
01 January 2011

Douglas Kennedy, Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, considers the content of the RCSEd's Ballistic Facial Injury study day in November 2010