Blast Injuries

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Case Report of Combat Blast Injury Requiring Combat Casualty Care, Far-Forward ECMO, Air Transport, and All Levels of Military Critical Care. 
  • A case of frontal neuropsychological and neuroimaging signs following multiple primary-blast exposure. 
  • A methodology for assessing blast protection in explosive ordnance disposal bomb suits. 
  • Advanced Modeling to Predict Pneumonia in Combat Trauma Patients. 
  • Air blast injuries killed the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley 
  • Attenuation of blast pressure behind ballistic protective vests. 
  • Blast and ballistic trajectories in combat casualties: a preliminary analysis using a cartesian positioning system with MDCT. 
  • Blast injury research: modeling injury effects of landmines, bullets, and bombs. 
  • Blast-related brain injury: imaging for clinical and research applications: report of the 2008 st. Louis workshop. 
  • Blood-brain barrier dysfunction after primary blast injury in vitro. 
  • Brain injuries from blast. 
  • Brain injury risk from primary blast. 
  • Cartesian positioning system for localization of blast and ballistic fragments: a phantom-based pilot study. 
  • Characteristics of ballistic and blast injuries. 
  • Cognitive sequelae of blast-related versus other mechanisms of brain trauma. 
  • Detecting traumatic brain injury among veterans of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. 
  • Development of a finite element model for blast brain injury and the effects of CSF cavitation. 
  • Dexamethasone potentiates in vitro blood-brain barrier recovery after primary blast injury by glucocorticoid receptor-mediated upregulation of ZO-1 tight junction protein. 
  • Differences in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Post-9/11 Veterans with Blast- and Non-Blast Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Diffusion tensor imaging reveals white matter injury in a rat model of repetitive blast-induced traumatic brain injury. 
  • Direct Observation of Low Strain, High Rate Deformation of Cultured Brain Tissue During Primary Blast. 
  • Distribution of civilian and military maxillofacial surgical procedures performed in an Air Force theatre hospital: implications for training and readiness. 
  • Drosophila melanogaster larvae as a model for blast lung injury. 
  • Explosive blast neurotrauma. 
  • High-pressure water injection injury: emergency presentation and management. 
  • Human Injury Criteria for Underwater Blasts. 
  • Isolated Primary Blast Inhibits Long-Term Potentiation in Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Cultures. 
  • Isolated primary blast alters neuronal function with minimal cell death in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures. 
  • Mass-casualty victim "surge" management. Preparing for bombings and blast-related injuries with possibility of hazardous materials exposure. 
  • Mesh considerations for finite element blast modelling in biomechanics. 
  • Mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq. 
  • Outcomes Following Severe Distal Tibial, Ankle, and/or Mid/Hindfoot Trauma: Comparison of Limb Salvage and Transtibial Amputation (OUTLET). 
  • Outcomes of primary repair and primary anastomosis in war-related colon injuries. 
  • Persistent posttraumatic headaches and functioning in veterans: Injury type can matter. 
  • Phosphodiesterase-4 inhibition restored hippocampal long term potentiation after primary blast. 
  • Population-based survey methods to quantify associations between human rights violations and health outcomes among internally displaced persons in eastern Burma. 
  • Post-traumatic stress after terrorist attack: psychological reactions following the US embassy bombing in Nairobi: Naturalistic study. 
  • Posttraumatic stress among young children after the death of a friend or acquaintance in a terrorist bombing. 
  • Primary Blast Exposure Increases Hippocampal Vulnerability to Subsequent Exposure: Reducing Long-Term Potentiation. 
  • Primary Blast Injury Depressed Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation through Disruption of Synaptic Proteins. 
  • Primary blast survival and injury risk assessment for repeated blast exposures. 
  • Primary blast wave protection in combat helmet design: A historical comparison between present day and World War I. 
  • Pulmonary injury risk assessment for long-duration blasts: a meta-analysis. 
  • Pulmonary injury risk assessment for short-duration blasts. 
  • Repeated mild blast exposure in young adult rats results in dynamic and persistent microstructural changes in the brain. 
  • Repeated primary blast injury causes delayed recovery, but not additive disruption, in an in vitro blood-brain barrier model. 
  • Review: managing posttraumatic stress disorder in combat veterans with comorbid traumatic brain injury. 
  • Risk factors for decreased range of motion and poor outcomes in open periarticular elbow fractures. 
  • Risk factors for infection and amputation following open, combat-related calcaneal fractures. 
  • Scaling in neurotrauma: how do we apply animal experiments to people? 
  • Sound induced vertigo: superior canal dehiscence resulting from blast exposure. 
  • State study of pyrotechnics-related injuries and property damage. 
  • Survival risk assessment for primary blast exposures to the head. 
  • The Human Lumbar Spine During High-Rate Under Seat Loading: A Combined Metric Injury Criteria. 
  • The evaluation of casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom on return to the continental United States from March to June 2003. 
  • The mechanics of traumatic brain injury: a review of what we know and what we need to know for reducing its societal burden. 
  • Time Course and Size of Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in a Mouse Model of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Tympanic membrane perforation after combat blast exposure in Iraq: a poor biomarker of primary blast injury. 
  • Tympanic-membrane perforation as a marker of concussive brain injury in Iraq. 
  • Underwater blast injury: a review of standards. 
  • Vestibular consequences of mild traumatic brain injury and blast exposure: a review. 
  • White matter compromise in veterans exposed to primary blast forces. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Johnson, G. Allan, Charles E. Putman University Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering