Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
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J R Army Med Corps
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To establish the pre-hospital timelines for seriously injured UK military casualties on OP HERRICK. ⋯ The public perception of excessive timelines for pre-hospital care in Afghanistan has been distorted. The ground truth is a pre-hospital time less than one quarter of the cited 7 hours for the seriously injured subset of UK Service personnel.
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This case is of an 8-year-old child who had a cardiac arrest and an Emergency Department thoracotomy (EDT) following a penetrating fragmentation injury to the chest. The management included damage control resuscitation, recombinant Factor VIIa and a successful emergency department thoracotomy.