Anthony M. J. Bull & Jon Clasper 
Blast Injury Science and Engineering 
A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

This heavily revised second edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary resource on blast injuries. It features detailed information on the basic science, engineering, and medicine associated with blast injuries. Clear,  easy to understand descriptions of the basic science are accompanied by case studies of a variety of clinical problems including heterotopic ossification, hearing damage, and traumatic brain injury, enabling the reader to develop a deep understanding of how to appropriately apply the relevant science into their clinical practice. The use of prosthetics, orthotics and osseointegration in rehabilitation is also covered.  

Blast Injury Science and Engineering: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers is a valuable interdisciplinary text primarily focused towards clinical medical professionals and trainees seeking to develop a thorough understanding of injury mechanisms, and the latest treatment techniques. In addition, this resource is of use to individuals in other fields whose work centres around blast injury science such as injury mitigation researchers, military scientists and engineers.

Table of Content

Preface: A history of blast injury science and engineering. – Part I Basic science and engineering .- The fundamentals of blast physics.- Biomechanics in blast.- Behaviour of materials.- Basic biology.- Part II Weapons effects and forensics.- Blast injury mechanisms.- Case studies of recent blast events.- Injury scoring systems.- Part III Clinical.- Coagulopathy and inflammation: an overview of blast effects.- Foot and ankle blast injuries.- Traumatic amputation.- Pelvic blast injury.- Blast injury to the spine.- Primary blast lung injury.- Blast injuries to the eye.- Hearing damage through blast.- Torso.- Traumatic brain injury.- Heterotopic ossification.- Non-union/complex trauma/holistic management of blast casualties.- Additional medical interventions.- Part IV Modelling blast and blast mitigation.- Section overview.- In silico modelling of primary blast.- In silico modelling of secondary blast.- In silico modelling of tertiary blast.- In silico modelling of blast-induced heterotopic ossification.- Physical experimental apparatus for modelling blast.- Surrogates – post mortem human tissue for primary, secondary and tertiary blast.- Surrogates – tissue simulants for secondary blast.- Surrogates – secondary blast for the skull/brain.- Surrogates – anthropometric test devices.- In vitro models of blast – cell response examples.- In vitro models of primary blast – organ models.- In vivo models of blast.- In vivo model of primary blast brain injury.-
Part V Application and innovation.- Testing and development of mitigation systems for tertiary blast.- Applications of blast injury research: solving clinical problems and providing mitigation.- Optimising the anatomical coverage provided by military body armour systems.- Vehicles.- Biomechanics of mitigation through behavioural change.- Part VI Rehabilitation.- Survive and thrive.- Early multidisciplinary team and approaches taken.- Prosthetics and innovation.- Orthotics.- Sockets and osseointegration and stump health.- Bone health.- Joint health, back pain, osteoarthritis, Biomechanics and rehabilitation.- Brain injury.- Pain.- Injury follow up post explosion.- The whole person. 

About the author

Professor Anthony M J Bull, Professor of Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Head of the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Director, Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK
 
Professor Jon Clasper, Defence Professor in Trauma and Orthopaedics (Retired)
Visiting Professor, Centre for Blast Injury Studies and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
 
Professor Peter F Mahoney, Consultant Anaesthetist
Visiting Professor, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
 
Professor Alison Mc Gregor, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, UK
Associate Director & Rehabilitation Lead of Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK.   
 
Dr Spyros Masouros, Reader in Injury Biomechanics, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Associate Director, Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS), Imperial College London, UK.
 
Lt Col (Dr) Arul Ramasamy, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Centre for Blast Injury Studies and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Reader and Head of Department, Academic Department of Military Trauma and Orthopaedics, Research and Clinical Innovation, Headquarters Defence Medical Services, ICT Centre, Birmingham, UK.