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Selection of publications by ICBL members and others on emergency and medical care for mine victims.
Prehospital trauma care systems. WHO, 2005
This manual provides guidance for policymakers on prehospital trauma care systems issue. The main areas covered include the organization of the prehospital trauma care system, capacity development, data collection, transportation and communication, as well as ethical and legal considerations
Hospitals for war-wounded: a practical guide for setting up and running a surgical hospital in an area of armed conflict. ICRC, Geneva, 2005, 181 p
When war breaks out, any existing health-care system will rapidly be disrupted and then overwhelmed: just when the infrastructure on which the facility is dependent collapses, an unprecedented influx of casualties occurs. This book is based on the ICRC's experience in running independent hospitals and is intended for anyone faced with the task of setting up or running a hospital for war casualties. It includes guidelines on how to manage an influx of wounded and sets out a system for managing patients from admission to discharge
Caring for landmine victims. ICRC, 2004
This leaflet examines the challenges involved in providing assistance to the landmine victims many of whom cannot be provided sufficient care caused by poverty and lack of health facilities. It also points the responsibilities of states party to the Ottawa Convention and the new Protocol on explosive remnants of war (ERW) and encourages increased efforts by both health-care systems and governments to support the victims.
Guidelines for essential trauma care. WHO, 2004
These Guidelines provides a series of resource tables for essential trauma care that detail the human and physical resources that should be in place to assure optimal care of the injured patient at the range of health facilities throughout the world, from rural health posts, to small hospitals staffed by general practitioners, to hospitals staffed by specialists, to tertiary care centres. These guidelines also provides a series of recommendations on methods to promote such standards including training, performance improvement, trauma team organization and hospital inspection
Paths to Recovery: Coordinated and Comprehensive Care for Landmine Survivor. Journal of Mine action, 2002
This article describes how physical health, psychological well-being and socio-economic reintegration are all important components of a complete recovery for landmine victims.
Upsetting Lives: The Public Health Impact of Landmines in Africa. TAYLOR, Sarah B, 2002
Affecting Africans both directly and indirectly, landmines seriously weaken the public health of entire nations. Several experts in the field offer their interpretations of this complicated issue
Injury: A Leading Cause of the Global Burden of Disease. Peden M, McGee K, Krugs E, WHO, Geneva, 2000
Surgery for victims of war. ICRC, Geneva, 1998, 203 p
This handbook summarizes the experience of leading practitioners in the field of war surgery and is intended to help military and civilian surgical teams treat people wounded in armed conflicts. It covers first aid, admission of urgent cases and triage, skin grafts, treatment of infections, wounds and burns, plastic surgery and anaesthesiology.
Pain and Rehabilitation from Landmine Injury. SMET John de, CHARLTON J. Edmond, MEYNADIER Jacques, 1998
This article describes medical needs of landmine victims from initial acute care to long-term rehabilitation and pain management, particularly of phantom limb pain. It also provides elements on epidemiology, more specifically on patterns of injury, social impact and numbers of amputees.
War wounds: basic surgical management . Robin Gray, ICRC, 1994
This booklet is intended for any doctor working within the context of a hospital treating war-wounded patients. It gives the basic surgical elements required for treating the war-wounded and is so structured as to facilitate decision-making.
Amputation for war wounds. Robin M. Coupland, ICRC, 1990
In hospitals of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) surgical amputation of lower and upper limbs at every level is common. Many of the severe limb injuries and traumatic amputations result from antipersonnel mines which, in modern warfare, are widely used and remain after the conflict.
