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Blast Injury Science and Engineering

A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Anthony M. J. Bull

    1. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Jon Clasper

    1. Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Frimley, United Kingdom

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  3. Peter F. Mahoney

    1. The ICT Centre, Birmingham Research Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  • This book will cover all the basic science, engineering and medicine required to understand blast injuries, their treatment and mitigation

  • A detailed description of how these basic approaches can be used to further the mitigation and treatment of blast injuries will be discussed

  • This book will look at detailed case studies to help the reader explore new areas of application

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Basic Science and Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Fundamentals of Blast Physics

      • William G. Proud
      Pages 3-16

    3. Biomechanics in Blast

      • Anthony M. J. Bull
      Pages 17-31

    4. Behaviour of Materials

      • Spyros Masouros, Dan J. Pope
      Pages 33-55

    5. Blast Loading of Cells

      • Katherine A. Brown
      Pages 57-70

    6. Biological Tissue Response

      • Angelo Karunaratne
      Pages 71-84

  3. Weapon Effects and the Human

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Blast Injury Mechanism

      • Dafydd S. Edwards, Jon Clasper
      Pages 87-104

  4. Principles of Investigating and Modelling Blast and Blast Mitigation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Examination of Post-blast Scenes

      • Karl Harrison, Nadia Abdul-Karim
      Pages 107-113

    3. Clinical Forensic Investigation of the 2005 London Suicide Bombings

      • Hasu D. L. Patel, Steven Dryden
      Pages 115-128

    4. Modelling the Blast Environment and Relating this to Clinical Injury: Experience from the 7/7 Inquest

      • Alan E. Hepper, Dan J. Pope, M. Bishop, Emrys Kirkman, A. Sedman, Robert J. Russell et al.
      Pages 129-134

    5. The Mortality Review Panel: A Report on the Deaths on Operations of UK Service Personnel 2002–2013

      • Robert J. Russell, Nicholas C. A. Hunt, Russell Delaney
      Pages 135-143

    6. Physical Models: Tissue Simulants

      • John Breeze, Debra J. Carr
      Pages 145-153

    7. Physical Models: Organ Models for Primary Blast

      • Hari Arora, Theofano Eftaxiopoulou
      Pages 155-159

    8. In-Vivo Models of Blast Injury

      • Theofano Eftaxiopoulou
      Pages 161-171

    9. Modelling Blast Brain Injury

      • Rita Campos-Pires, Robert Dickinson
      Pages 173-182

    10. Military Wound Ballistics Case Study: Development of a Skull/Brain Model

      • Debra J. Carr, Stephen Champion
      Pages 183-188

    11. Surrogates of Human Injury

      • Diagarajen Carpanen, Spyros Masouros, Nicolas Newell
      Pages 189-198
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About this book

This book aims to help clinicians who seek to conduct science and engineering based research on blast injuries as well as engineers and scientists who seek to apply their expertise to address blast injuries.

Blast injuries are prevalent. While the current conflict in Afghanistan is reaching its final stages, the legacy of landmines will sadly ensure that injuries and fatalities will continue to occur. The understanding of these injuries and the science behind their mitigation and treatment is a multi-disciplinary effort. Current knowledge has rapidly grown due to recent conflicts, yet the learning has not yet been captured in any formal way.

Reviews

“This multiauthored book describes the physics, materials response, engineering principles, and clinical impact of blast injury. … Basic scientists, materials specialists, clinical investigators, and clinicians treating victims of blast injury are an appropriate audience for this book from medical, engineering, military, and law enforcement agencies all based in the U.K. … Engineers will appreciate the mathematics of explosion force, while clinicians will find helpful reviews of physics and incident modeling.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Anthony M. J. Bull

  • Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Frimley, United Kingdom

    Jon Clasper

  • The ICT Centre, Birmingham Research Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Peter F. Mahoney

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Blast Injury Science and Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

  • Editors: Anthony M. J. Bull, Jon Clasper, Peter F. Mahoney

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21867-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79366-5Published: 19 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21867-0Published: 21 March 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 328

  • Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emergency Medicine, Traumatic Surgery

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