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Management of Gulf War casualties
1Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
The British Journal of Surgery
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
During the Gulf War 84 patients underwent surgery in the Jubail Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia. The median time to evacuate casualties to hospital was 8 h 40 min. Fragments caused 88 per cent of injuries; 11 per cent were caused by bullets. Multiple lesions were encountered in 70 per cent of patients. The extremities (76 per cent) were the most frequently injured site, the lower limbs more so than the upper. Soft tissue injuries prevailed (59 per cent).