Blunt and penetrating injuries caused by rubber bullets during the Israeli-Arab conflict in October, 2000: a retrospective study

Mahajna, Ahmad; Aboud, Nabil; Harbaji, Ibrahim; Agbaria, Afo; Lankovsky, Zvi; Michaelson, Moshe; Fisher, Doron; Krausz, Michael M.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(02)08708-1

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“…There was a preponderance of male sex in the IMCW who required CT scan. This finding is similar to earlier reports 17 , 18 , 19 . The IMCW wounded patients are mostly young and middle aged male warriors/ persons injured in the guerrilla warfare where villages and towns came under attack like those reported by Splavski et al 20 .…”

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Evaluation of CT scanned Multiple Injured in peacetime and Ile Ife-Modakeke Communal War

2008

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Evaluation of CT scanned Multiple Injured in peacetime and Ile Ife-Modakeke Communal War

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“…Due to that blunt projectiles such as, stiff plastic baton, wood baton projectiles, plastic and rubber bullets etc. reported to have caused serious injuries and fatalities (Hughes, et al, 2005;Maguire, et al, 2007;Mahajna, et al, 2002;Rocke, 1983;Sheridan & Whitlock, 1983). Therefore, it is essential to validate (confirm that the effect is non-lethal) the non-lethal weapons by measuring the blunt thoracic trauma in terms of known engineering parameters, well before putting them into the use.…”

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Development and validation of a thorax surrogate FE model for assessment of trauma due to high speed blunt impacts

Thota

Epaarachchi

Lau

2014

JBSE

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Without being able to evaluate blunt thoracic trauma in terms of an acceptable injury criterion, it is not possible to develop or validate non-lethal projectiles, bullet proof vests and chest protectors for sports personnel etc. In order for the assessment of the blunt trauma caused by high speed projectiles, a novel design of a mechanical surrogate of the thorax (Mechanical THOrax for Trauma Assessment: MTHOTA) was conceptualized. An iterative impact analyses in the virtual testing environment were carried out by impacting the finite element model of the mechanical thorax with 37 mm diameter, 100 mm long wooden baton weighing 140 grams (20 m/s and 40 m/s impact speeds) and 37 mm diameter, 28.5 mm long wooden baton weighing 30 grams with 60 m/s impact speed. From the output of every simulation, force dynamic response (force-time), deflection dynamic response (deflection-time) and force-deflection response were elicited and compared with the corresponding human response corridors developed by Wayne State University's researchers. By suitably changing the design parameters of the mechanical surrogate, simulation iterations were continued till the responses were correlated with the human response corridors. Values of viscous criterion (VC max ), product of maximum chest deflection and the rate at which chest deforms, obtained from MTHOTA were in very good agreement with those obtained from the cadaveric test data. The methodology, concept and validation of the MTHOTA have been presented in this paper.

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“…18 Mahajna et al in their study have observed that nonpowder firearm can cause injuries like standard firearms when proper guidelines are not followed during crowd control and should not be considered non-lethal weapons. 19 Non-lethal or less lethal nature of any weapon is determined by the guidelines that need to be followed while being used. 20 However during riot control rules and regulations are not followed by law enforcement agencies hence resulting in grevious injuries by these so called non-lethal weapons.…”

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Musculoskeletal pellet gun injuries; report from a conflict zone

Bhat

Sofi

et al. 2017

Int J Res Orthop

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Background: Pellet gun used by law enforcement agencies have the potential to cause grevious or life threatening injuries as metallic projectiles fired at high speeds from pellet gun have potential to damage strongest structure like bone.The objective of the study was to evaluate musculoskeletal pellet gun injuries in patients.Methods: This study was conducted over two years involving 88 patients.Results: A significant number of patients had grevious musculoskeletal pellet gun injuries. 50 patients had superficial injuries, 11 patients had fractures, 5 had nerve injuries, 7 had tendon injuries and 15 had intra-articular pellets. Conclusions: Pellet guns can cause grevious musculoskeletal injuries which can leave the victim with lifelong disability.

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Blunt and penetrating injuries caused by rubber bullets during the Israeli-Arab conflict in October, 2000: a retrospective study

Cited by 89 publications

References 14 publications

Evaluation of CT scanned Multiple Injured in peacetime and Ile Ife-Modakeke Communal War

Evaluation of CT scanned Multiple Injured in peacetime and Ile Ife-Modakeke Communal War

Development and validation of a thorax surrogate FE model for assessment of trauma due to high speed blunt impacts

Musculoskeletal pellet gun injuries; report from a conflict zone

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