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Polytrauma: A New Frontier in Rehabilitation Nursing

Wounded warriors from Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) are presenting new healthcare challenges for rehabilitation nurses in the military and Veterans Health Administration. Rather than presenting with a single trauma or impairment, these wounded warriors present with complex, multiple injuries in unpredictable patterns, known as polytrauma/blast-related injury (FT/BRI). Of the Army personnel wounded in action in Iraq and evacuated between March 2003 and July 2005, 65.9% sustained injuries as a result of explosions (Office of the Surgeon General, 2005). Explosions include improvised explosive devices, land mines, hand grenades, and rocket-propelled grenades. Because of the ...

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