Ballistic Trauma Book

	Foreword
1	The international small arms situation : a public health approach	3
2	Guns and bullets : Part 1 : how guns work	31
	Guns and bullets : Part 2 : the effects of bullets	40
3	Bombs, mines, blast, fragmentation, and thermobaric mechanisms of injury	45
4	Ballistic protection	67
5	Forensic aspects of ballistic injury	91
6	Ballistic trauma, armed violence, and international law	122
7	Prehospital care	137
8	Resuscitation and anesthesia for the ballistic casuality	151
9	Clinical ballistics : surgical management of soft-tissue injuries - general principles	168
10	Damage control	180
11	Neck injury	209
12	Thoracic injury	241
13	Penetrating genitourinary trauma : management by the nonspecialist surgeon	270
14	Abdomen and pelvis	299
15	Management of ballistic trauma to the head	325
16	Spinal injury	348
17	Limb injuries	356
18	Vascular injury	381
19	Ballistic trauma in children	396
20	Injuries in pregnancy	418
21	Burns	424
22	Intensive care of the trauma patient with ballistic injuries	445
23	Imaging triage for ballistic trauma	465
24	Training to manage ballistic trauma	486
25	Hospital and system assessment	513
26	Triage	527
27	Managing ballistic injury in the military environment : the concept of forward surgical support	535
28	Managing ballistic injury in the NGO environment	541
A	Ballistic missile injuries in the siege of Sarajevo 1992-1995	569
B	Vascular injuries in the groin	576
C	Conflict surgery	579
D	Surgery in the camps	585
E	Ballistics - lessons learned	592
F	African education	594
G	The role of intensive care in the management of ballistic trauma in war	596
H	Survivors and shooters	599
I	Rectal examination revisited	606
	Where a trauma surgeon can go ballistic?	611