![]() Probablement le feu a été utilisé comme arme offensive longtemps avant cela. Les lésions causées par les brûlures constituent une menace toujours présente dans l'environnement militaire, et depuis plus de 5000 ans la littérature relative contient des descriptions des brûlures de guerre. The mechanisms and patterns of injury produced by each class of weapons are examined so that a better understanding of burn management in a warfare situation may be achieved. The present review explores various categories of weapons of modern warfare that are unfamiliar to most medical and paramedical personnel responsible for burn treatment. ![]() Even though medical personnel usually believe that a knowledge of weaponry has little relevance to their ability to effectively treat injuries and that it may in some way be in conflict with their status, accorded under the Geneva and Hague treaties, it is imperative that they know how weapons are used and understand their effects on the human body. With the ever-increasing destructive power and efficiency of modern weapons, casualties, both fatal and non-fatal, are reaching new highs, particularly among civilians who are becoming the major wartime targets in recent wars, accounting for most of the killed and wounded. Fire was probably utilized as a weapon long before that. ![]() Burn injury is a ubiquitous threat in the military environment, and war burns have been described for more than 5,000 years of written history. ![]()
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