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Area of Science:

  • Military Medicine
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Orthopedics

Background:

  • Middle Eastern conflicts have seen a shift from ballistic missiles to blast weapons over the last decade.
  • This change in warfare tactics has led to altered wounding patterns and an increase in limb amputations for UK service personnel.
  • Amputations are performed as life- and limb-saving procedures due to the severity of these injuries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To retrospectively review limb amputations in UK service personnel over an 8-year period.
  • To compare amputation data from the early years of conflict with more recent years.
  • To identify changes in injury patterns, surgical methods, and outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • UK Joint Theatre Trauma Registry data was used to identify service personnel with extremity Abbreviated Injury Score > 1.
  • Personnel were divided into two temporal cohorts: August 2003-February 2008 and August 2008-July 2010.
  • In-theatre and Role 4 hospital records were analyzed for injury details, amputation methods, microbiology, and outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Significant differences observed in amputation nature, multiple amputations, and perineal soft tissue wounds between the two periods.
  • Higher Injury Severity Score noted in the later time period.
  • More guillotine amputations in the early cohort versus more blast injuries in the later cohort.

Conclusions:

  • A significant change in limb trauma patterns has occurred from the Iraq conflict to the Afghanistan conflict.
  • These evolving injury patterns have distinct logistic implications for medical assets.
  • Future conflict medical planning must account for these changes in trauma presentation.