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Volume 352:2121 May 19, 2005 Number 20
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Using Every Resource to Care for Our Casualties
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.

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by Okie, S.

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The war in Iraq has resulted in an unprecedented number of traumatic brain injuries to U.S. soldiers. As described by Okie in this issue of the Journal,1 these soldiers have been saved from what in the past might have been a lethal injury by a combination of new protective battlefield equipment and extraordinary resourcefulness on the part of medical first responders and military surgeons. These medical personnel have saved many lives.

Their success breeds another problem, however: how to provide the best long-term care for the survivors of these injuries. Once the bleeding has been stopped and the brain swelling . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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