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A Josselson

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PubMed1988

The shielding capacity of the standard military flak jacket against ballistic injury to the kidney.

An animal model was designed to evaluate the ability of the standard military flak jacket to protect the kidneys from direct ballistic trauma. Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets. Ballistic insults ranging from a low-velocity handgun to a high-velocity rifle were evaluated. The results demonstrate that a flak jacket provides adequate protection against low- and mid-velocity projectiles since none of the animals from this group had evidence of internal trauma and because only minor superficial surgical attention would have been required. Survivability in each case was considered to be excellent. The flak jacket failed to provide any protection against several types of high-velocity bullets. These weapons caused severe internal injury to the genitourinary system as well as to other major organ systems. Survival would have been unlikely.

Animals↗
PubMed1984

Acute rheumatic carditis causing sudden death.

An 18-year-old male died suddenly while running a confidence course in basic training. Past medical history was negative for acute rheumatic fever. At autopsy he had acute rheumatic mitral valvulitis with extensive myocarditis. Multiple Aschoff bodies were seen in perivascular regions in the right and left ventricle. Review of recent literature of the various causes of sudden cardiac death failed to reveal acute rheumatic valvulitis and myocarditis as reported causes of sudden death.

Adolescent↗