Outcomes following penetrating neck injury during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: A comparison of treatment at US and United Kingdom medical treatment facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The United States and United Kingdom (UK) had differing approaches to the surgical skill mix within deployed medical treatment facilities (MTFs) in support of the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Methods

The US and UK combat trauma registries were scrutinized for patients with penetrating neck injury (PNI) at deployed coalition MTF between March 2003 and October 2011. A multivariate mixed effects logistic regression model (threshold, p < 0.05) was used stratified by MTF location and year of injury. The dependent variable was fatality on leaving Role 3, and the independent variables were ISS on arrival, nationality, MTF nationality, and presence of head and neck surgeon.

Results

A total of 3,357 (4.9%) of 67,586 patients who arrived alive at dep

SUBMITTER: Breeze J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7182242 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature