Frimley Park

Improving survivability from blast injury: ‘shifting the goalposts’ and the need for interdisciplinary research A Phill Pearce1,2 and Jon Clasper1,3 1 The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Department of Bioengineering,, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK 3 Defence Medical Group South East, Frimley Park, Frimley, UK Correspondence to Sqn Ldr A Phill Pearce, The Royal...

Blast injury is not a new phenomenon, but the nature of warfare has changed; explosive weapons are now the most common mode of battlefield trauma.1 In this issue, McGuire et al demonstrate the incidence of explosive injury in both recent UK operations and those from decades before.2 The need for further understanding of these injuries is apparent and this issue highlights the breadth and depth of blast injury research. Advances have been led from the front by the Defence Medical Services.