This heavily revised second edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary resource on blast injuries. It features detailed information on the basic science, engineering, and medicine associated with blast injuries. Clear, easy to understand descriptions of the basic science are accompanied by case studies of a variety of clinical problems including heterotopic ossification, hearing damage, and traumatic brain injury, enabling the reader to develop a deep understanding of how to appropriately apply the relevant science into their clinical practice. The use of prosthetics, orthotics and osseointegration in rehabilitation is also covered.
Blast Injury Science and Engineering: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers is a valuable interdisciplinary text primarily focused towards clinical medical professionals and trainees seeking to develop a thorough understanding of injury mechanisms, and the latest treatment techniques. In addition, this resource is of use to individuals in other fields whose work centres around blast injury science such as injury mitigation researchers, military scientists and engineers.
Preface: A history of blast injury science and engineering .- Part I
Basic science and engineering .- Part II Weapons effects and forensics.- Part
III Clinical problems.- Part IV Modelling blast and blast mitigation.- Part V
Application and innovation.- Part VI Rehabilitation.
Professor Anthony M J Bull, Professor of Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Head of the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Director, Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK
Professor Jon Clasper, Defence Professor in Trauma and Orthopaedics (Retired)
Visiting Professor, Centre for Blast Injury Studies and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Professor Peter F Mahoney, Consultant Anaesthetist
Visiting Professor, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Professor Alison McGregor, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, UK
Associate Director & Rehabilitation Lead of Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK.
Dr Spyros Masouros, Readerin Injury Biomechanics, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Associate Director, Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK.
Lt Col (Dr) Arul Ramasamy, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Centre for Blast Injury Studies and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Reader and Head of Department, Academic Department of Military Trauma and Orthopaedics, Research and Clinical Innovation, Headquarters Defence Medical Services, ICT Centre, Birmingham, UK.
