A
acute paediatric textbook 95
Afghan civilian patients, locals 89
Afghan Cohort 8
Afghanistan, timeline 15
anaesthetist 46
antibiotics, Afghan response to 108
antibiotics 169
avulsive injuries 41, 109, 110
B
bacteria, funghi, viruses 168
Baltimore shock trauma unit 244
Bastion Bakers 279
Battle of Britain 84
bereavement stages 221
Bessel van der Kolk 270
biological material implantation 168
Biophilia 223
blast boots 247
blast vehicle flooring 247
Blatchfords 186
bloodstained canvas watchstrap 285
body bag 56
bomb, Brussels 250
bomb, Kabul, 250
bomb, Lahore, 250
buddy aid 28
bunker, Birmingham 143
C
Camp Bastion 49
capillary refill 21
Casevac 10
Casualty Notification Officer 139
central sensitisation, membrane excitability 269
chest seals 29
chickens 222
Chinook helicopter 34, 45, 48, 53, 56, 120
Chinook pilot 94
civilian paramedic 32
co-morbidity cluster 272
colour therapy (1918) 226
combat anaesthetists 46
Combat Medical Technician 31, 33
comfy sticks 191
concordance 182
conscious standing function 195
Counter-IED Task Force 230
Country Life magazine 201
Cromwell, Oliver 200
crows 24
Crunchie bar 51
D
deadly cascade 22, 29, 41–9, 62, 99
debriding 78
de-gloving, stump 212
Dejerine Klumpke, Augusta 249
Deployed Medical Director 86
dinosaurs 223
dogs 96
dose response pattern 62
Drill, EZIO 51
Duty Critical Care Nurse 145–8, 284
E
‘effects of bomb-wounds’ 242
Emergency Department, Bastion 70
exudate 110
Eyjafjallajökull 123
F
Falkland Island campaign 130
falling 196
falling down class 237
Fat Boy Fridays (Ormrod) 257
Field Hospital Camp Bastion 66, 85
food parcels 96
Fox, bastards 223
free flaps 157
‘Furnace of Baghdad’ 47
G
giving up smoking 237
global population of survivors of blast injury 8
global whole-body badness 62
goals (Ormrod) 253
Golden Hour 49, 51, 55, 61–3, 71, 244
Great War amputee cohort 102
Green Starburst 235
gym at Headley 183
H
haemostatic agent, dressings 27, 50
Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics company 253
Helmand Province, 15
hemipelvectomy 158
Henry V, 1
Henson Model 265
Heterotopic ossification 280–89, 281
hip-walking 194
HOXA13 (gene) 266
I
IED as emerging injury pattern 83
Imperial College London 12, 104, 105
inflammation 62, chronic pro-inflammatory state 22, 64
inflammatory storm 62, 109, 112
interface astroglial scarring 274–276
Iraq 9
ITU-PTSD 117
junior trauma surgeon 80, 142, 280
K
Keogh, Alfred 242
L
Lawrence, Robert 130–32, 180, 273
lonestar 199
long legs boot camp 208
M
Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) 45–9, 57, 69, 71, 82, 231
Meenagh, Scott 23, 120–21, 123, 151, 163, 191, 220, 224
micropigs, 223
military pain team 160
mortuary 100
multidisciplinary team 182
Musgrave Park Bombing 86
N
‘Nelly the Elephant’ 80
neuromas 210
next of kin 139
NHS falling metric 196
Nightingale landing pad 56, 66
9–Liner 49, 69, 81, 87, 123, 142, 231, 285
O
optimized stump modelling 264–5
Ormrod, Mark 38, 50, 77, 140, 197–9, 140, 224, 239
orthopaedic surgeon 84, 102, 103, 243–5
P
pain 36, 41, 51, 159–63, 210–14
pain consultant 160
pain-related catastrophising study 269
pain, regional nerve blocks 113–15, 127
pathophysiology of shock 21, 64
patient diaries 11, 116–21, 151, 171–3, 232
pelvic injury 163
phantom limb pain 162–3, 213–14
photographs, mobile phones 285
pizza night at the Padre’s 278
plastic surgeon 83–5, 91, 97, 156, 168, 280
‘Post Traumatic Stress Ordering’ (Paul Roach) 283
prosthetists’ workshop 187
Q
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Birmingham 141
R
refugees 17
repatriation ceremony 80–82, 279
Resilience Field Hospital 87
Right Turn Resuscitation 72
River City protocol 99
Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies 13, 241, 245
S
saluting 183
Sangin Valley 32
The Secret Garden 205
self-aid 26
sepsis 64
7/7 bombings, London 249
Sharpie pen 55
side-by-side therapy 224
silence 98
skateboard park 208
Sloggett, Arthur 242
sniper tape 55
snowballs 207
sockets and stumps 185
soft-tissue bioengineering 265–6
The Sound of Music 87
sports injuries 180
St Dunstans 236
stretcher bearer at the Somme, 278
Stridor 52
sucking chest wounds 29
Surround and Save 47, 54, 71–2
survival rates in extreme resus 55
T
tattoo, Ormrod, Mark 78
tattoos 164
TBI 273
tension pneumothorax 29
through the knee amputation 191–2
time machine, doesn’t exist yet 241
trauma bay 71
Trauma Centre at Justice Resource Institute 270
tube pedicles 91
U
ulceration 211
unexpected survivors 101, 159, 178
V
W
war in Afghanistan, timeline 15–17
whistle 71
WHO pain ladder 160
‘Why we are here/in Afghanistan’ 16, 68
Williams, Serjeant Michael 1, 13
witness panels, copper 242, 246
Y
‘Year of the hammering’ 17
Z
Zimbabwean War of Independence 246