Tag: The Queen’s Hospital
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The psychological impact of facial injury in the First World War: Outcomes from the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup
Andrew BamjiRye, East Sussex, UK Modern warfare, and in particular the use of artillery employed against entrenched troops in the First World War, resulted in a large number of facial wounds in all armies. Surgeons were unprepared. Advances in the management of infection and surgical shock resulted in better survival from wounds that would previously…