Bullet and blast injuries

Bullet and blast injuries

ARTICLE IN PRESS Current Orthopaedics (2006) 20, 321 Available at www.sciencedirect.com journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cuor EDITORIAL B...

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ARTICLE IN PRESS Current Orthopaedics (2006) 20, 321

Available at www.sciencedirect.com

journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cuor

EDITORIAL

Bullet and blast injuries These are four excellent papers on this very important topic. Necessarily there is a fair amount of repetition but Michael Farquharson-Roberts, who commissioned this mini-symposium, and I, as the Editor, felt that a degree of repetition was indeed desirable and reinforced some of the many important messages to take on board from this mini-symposium. The

0268-0890/$ - see front matter & 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.cuor.2006.08.002

difference between civilian and military life seems to be getting ever narrower and so there is a lot for everyone to learn from these hands on experts.

Robert A. Dickson