Urology during Afghanistan mission: lessons learned and implications for the future.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Battle-related trauma is common in modern warfare and can lead to genitourinary injuries. In Western countries, urogenital injuries are rare in the civilian environment. The main objective of this study was to assess urological workload for surgeons on deployment.

Material and methods

Data were acquired over a period of five years of deployment in a U.S. facility in Afghanistan.

Results

German urological surgeons treated on average one urologic outpatient per day and performed 314 surgical interventions overall. Surgical interventions were categorized as battle-related interventions (BRIs, n = 169, 53.8%) and nonbattle-related interventions (non-BRIs, n = 145, 46.2%). In the BRI group, interventions were mainly performed on the external genitalia (n = 67, 39.6

SUBMITTER: Schoch J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415492 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature