Title
Guidelines for reproducing blast exposures in the laboratory
Author
Tyson Josey, T.
Ouellet, S.
Bieler, D.
Cernak, I.
Franke, A.
Gupta, R.
Kirkman, E.
Leggieri M.J.,
Orru, H.
Philippens, M.M.G.M.
Risling, M.
Sarron, J.C.
Skriudalen, S.
Teland, J.A.
Watts, S.
Bjarnason, S.
Publication year
2019
Abstract
Discussions at a NATO Health Factors and Medicine Symposium 207 (HFM-SYM-207) revealed the importance of a systematic approach to understanding blast injuries much like the well-established approach used to solve the classical toxicology problem where the aetiology of the injury requires an understanding of the dose, mechanism of delivery of the dosage and dose–response endpoints.1 To address the above recommendation and to develop a specific NATO activity devoted to the toxicology of blast exposure, a proposal titled ‘Environmental Toxicology of Blast Exposures: Injury Metrics, Modeling, Methods and Standards’ was approved which resulted in the establishment of a NATO HFM Research Task Group (RTG; HFM-234 (RTG)) with the following deliverables. The guidelines developed under HFM-234 are intended to provide blast injury research laboratories with a fundamental set of characteristics that need to be collected and described when generating blast pressure waves. It is not the intention to prescribe how to create the blast pressure waves but to provide an awareness of what needs to be taken into account, measured and updated when creating blast exposures; the objectives of this document are to (i) Raise awareness regarding the complexities and pitfalls of blast injury research. (ii) Standardise and promote good practices. (iii) Help the community to generate valid and comparable results. (iv) Increase the quality of publications in this field of research.
Subject
Blast
Exposure
Guidelines
Laboratory
Defence, Safety and Security
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TNO identifier
843526
Source
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 165 (165), 10-14
Document type
conference paper