Yahoo brachte <a href=story.news.yahoo.com target=_blank>eine Geschichte über die Verletzungen der US-Soldaten. Der Ursprungsartikel in dem med. Fachblatt "The New England Journal of Medicine" hat eine Fotostrecke mit Beispielen (nicht unmittelbar vor oder nach einer Nahrungsaufnahme ansehen, bitte) dabei. Da ist das oben her: Folgen einer Explosion.
In one traumatic case, Gawande tells of an airman who lost both legs, his right hand and part of his face. "How he and others like him will be able to live and function remains an open question," Gawande writes. Kevlar helmets and vests are one reason for the high survival rate. "The critical core, your chest and your abdomen, are protected," said Dr. George Peoples, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center surgeon who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Parodixically, what we've seen is devastating extremity injuries because people are surviving wounds they otherwise wouldn't have."