Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies written by Daniel L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurotrauma written by Raj K. Narayan and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is a comprehensive work in the field of neurotrauma and critical care. It incorporates the fields of head injury, spinal injury and basic neurotrauma research into one source. The major emphasis is on the treatment of patients with head and spinal cord injury, including the management of all other problems that bear upon the care of these patients.
Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies with Animals and Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army needs realistic safe limits for exposure to impulse noise produced by heavy weapons. Impulse noise limits, based on data from small arms, may be overly conservative. In order to define new limits for heavy weapons, this systematic 5-year study of the effects of high-intensity impulse noise on human volunteers was undertaken. The number of impulses, the peak pressure levels, and spectral distributions of energy of heavy weapon-like impulses were varied systematically. Five major groups of 273 volunteers were given a series of exposures to one of three impulse types and to three types of hearing protection. The impulse spectrum was varied by changing the distance between the volunteer and an explosive detonation. The peak pressure level was varied in 3-dB steps by changing the weight of the explosive charge. The number of impulses per day was 6, 12, 25, 50, or 100. Volunteers wore hearing protection for all exposures. After each exposure, the amount of TTS, if any, was determined. Each volunteer started with an exposure of six impulses at the lowest intensity. If the TTS was less than 15 dB, the subject received six impulses at the next higher level the next day. Noise induced hearing loss, Temporary threshold shift of hearing(TTS), RA III, Volunteers.
Download or read book Brain Neurotrauma written by Firas H. Kobeissy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the contribution from more than one hundred CNS neurotrauma experts, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account on the latest developments in the area of neurotrauma including biomarker studies, experimental models, diagnostic methods, and neurotherapeutic intervention strategies in brain injury research. It discusses neurotrauma mechanisms, biomarker discovery, and neurocognitive and neurobehavioral deficits. Also included are medical interventions and recent neurotherapeutics used in the area of brain injury that have been translated to the area of rehabilitation research. In addition, a section is devoted to models of milder CNS injury, including sports injuries.
Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies Part II Nonauditory Damage Risk Assessment for Simulated Weapons Fired 100 Times from an Enclosure written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anesthetized sheep were exposed to a reverberant wave environment like that produced from firing an antitank weapon from a room. The simulation was accomplished by detonating C4 explosives outside a chamber of 18.2 m3 volume. The blast wave traveled into the chamber through a 20-cm I.D. tube and was reflected off the back wall and subsequently throughout the chamber. The resulting waveform very closely approximated that generated by a Carl-Gustav antitank weapon fired from a chamber. Part I of the studies indicated that for a series of 1 shot or 3 shots, 2.5 minutes apart, multiple shots have a strong additive effect, decreasing the subthreshold levels. The subthreshold for a single blast was estimated to be above a peak of 48 kPa. The subthreshold for 3 exposures was estimated to be at 44 kPa. This study, called Part II, used 100 shots, 1 minute apart. For this exposure, a subthreshold peak of at least 23 kPa was verified using 19 animals.
Download or read book Explosion and Blast Related Injuries written by Nabil M. Elsayed Ph.D. and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosion and Blast-Related Injuries is an authoritative text that brings together diverse knowledge gained from both the experience of clinicians treating blast casualties and the insights of scientists obtained from research and modeling of blast exposures. By providing information on explosion and blast injury patterns, as well as the mechanism of blast-induced injuries, it is a useful reference for both physicians and researchers. With contributions by experts from around the globe, the book covers topics such as the epidemiology of blast and explosion injury, pathology and pathophysiology, and the modeling and mechanism of injury. Finally, this book might stimulate additional studies into ways to improve our current mass casualty response systems.* Contains contributions from experts who had first hand experience dealing with explosion and blast injuries. * Provides a diverse global experience derived from both military operations and terrorist attacks in civilian settings from the US, Europe and the Middle East. * Covers such topics as epidemiology of blast and explosion injury, pathology and pathophysiology, modeling and mechanism of injury, and finally presents the global experiences of blast injury and mass casualty management.
Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies Nonauditory Damage Risk Assessment for Simulated Muzzle Blast from a L2Omm Ml2l Mortar System written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was undertaken to establish the subthreshold, threshold, and suprathresholds for nonauditory injuries in a simulated muzzle blast environment like that produced when firing a 120mm M121 mortar system. A vertical axis explosively driven shock tube, in combination with reflector shields, was used to produce the required muzzle blast pressure-time pattern. Varying numbers of anesthetized sheep were subjected to 6 or 50 blasts of simulated muzzle blast waves in 1.5- to 3.0-dB increments. The results of the study demonstrated that sheep could be exposed to Pmax levels consisting of 6 blasts of 36 kPa each and 50 blasts of 30 kPa each and sustain no injuries to trivial upper respiratory tract injuries at most. Threshold injuries were calculated to occur at 53 and 34 kPa for 6- and 50-blast exposures, respectively. Suprathresholds for URT and GI tract lesions were predicted to be 69 and 46 kPa for 6 and 50 blasts each. A suprathreshold for lung hemorrhage was predicted at 277 kPa for 6 exposures. Comparative analyses of this study with previous complex wave studies demonstrated that the safe nonauditory subthreshold for as many as 100 complex blastwave exposures was 22 kPa.
Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies with Animals and Man Task Order 1 Firing from a Bunker Simulator Study Task Order 4 Nonlinear Plug Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To satisfy the Army's need for realistic safe limits for heavy weapon noise while wearing hearing protection, a 2-1/2 year study was undertaken. Using active duty military volunteers, 64 subjects established that the auditory system could be adequately protected with the RACAL(registered) muff from one to three exposures of the reverberant waveforms obtained from a rocket launcher out of an enclosure. Thus, nonauditory considerations set the exposure limits for this type of waveform. This research was accomplished under Task Order 1. Using 27 subjects, two types of nonlinear (increasing attenuation with level) plugs type of hearing protection were evaluated using 6 to 100 exposures of a freefield waveform of 1.5-ms duration. With the limited number of subjects, neither plug was proven adequate to protect the auditory system from this type of waveform. Several subjects had a temporary threshold shift (TTS) of their hearing of more than 25 dB. The compressible foam plug, did appear to provide adequate protection up the auditory limits for this waveform. This research was accomplished under Task Order 4.
Download or read book Blast Overpressure Studies with Animals and Man Nonauditory Damage Risk Assessment for Simulated 155mm Self Propelled Howitzer Blast written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was undertaken to establish the nonauditory injury subthreshold in a simulated muzzle blast environment like that produced when tiring an M109 155 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH) with one or more hatches open. An explosively driven shock tube, the hull of an M108 SPH, and a six-plate reflector system were used to produce the required muzzle blast signature. Using as many as 40 anesthetized sheep for each exposure condition, safe no-injury levels were established with an occasional minor upper respiratory tract lesion. These levels were 24 kPa for 6 blasts and 20 kPa for 25 to 100 blasts.
Download or read book Neurotrauma written by Kevin Wang and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurotrauma: A Comprehensive Textbook on Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury aims to bring together the latest clinical practice and research in the field of two forms of trauma to the central nervous system: namely traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI). This volume details the latest research and clinical practice in the treatment of neurotrauma, in a comprehensive but easy-to-follow format. Neurotrauma is a valuable resource for any clinician involved in caring for the TBI, clinical research professionals, researchers, medical and graduate students, and nurse specialists.
Download or read book Neurological Effects of Repeated Exposure to Military Occupational Levels of Blast written by Molly M. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is increasing concern over the common, repetitive forms of blast to which military members are exposed during service, and how those exposures could affect the central nervous system. The authors of this report review the relevant literature.
Download or read book Modeling Explosions and Blast Waves written by K. Ramamurthi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b="" The book provides a concise description of the physical processes and mathematical models for explosions and formation of blast waves from explosions. The contents focus on quantitatively determining the energy released in the different types of explosions and the destructive blast waves that are generated. The contribution of flames, detonations and other physical processes to the explosion phenomenon is dealt with in detail. Gaseous and condensed phase explosions are discussed and the yield of explosions with their TNT equivalence is determined. Time scales involved in the explosion process and the scaling procedure are ascertained. Explosions over the ground, in water, and the interaction of explosions with objects are examined. In order to keep the text easily readable, the detailed derivation of the mathematical equations is given in the seven appendices at the end of the book. Case studies of various explosions are investigated and simple problems and their solutions are provided for the different topics to assist the reader in internalizing the explosion process. The book is a useful reference for professionals and academics in aeronautics, mechanical, civil and chemical engineering and for personnel working in explosive manufacture and high-energy materials, armaments, space, defense, and industrial and fire safety.
Download or read book Translational Research in Traumatic Brain Injury written by Daniel Laskowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a significant source of death and permanent disability, contributing to nearly one-third of all injury related deaths in the United States and exacting a profound personal and economic toll. Despite the increased resources that have recently been brought to bear to improve our understanding of TBI, the developme
Download or read book Effects of Overpressure on the Ear written by Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolerance levels of the human ear to various types of overpressure are discussed. (Author).
Download or read book A Health Hazard Assessment for Blast Overpressure Exposures Subtitle Blast Overpressure Research Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of nuclear blast caused a renewed interest in blast research in the United States. Thus, was the beginning of the Blast Overpressure Program at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. From the early 1950's through 1997, research on the biomedical, biological and biophysical effects of blast and shock was conducted. During this time, data essential to the understanding of the broad and complex nature of the biological effects of blast overpressure and impulse noise were obtained.
Download or read book Conventional Warfare written by Ronald F. Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury written by Cristina Morganti-Kossmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the most up-to-date clinical and experimental research in neurotrauma in an illustrated, accessible, comprehensive volume.
