Protection of the Lung from Blast Overpressure by Thoracic Stress Wave Decouplers

Abstract

(C)British Crown copyright 1996/DERA--published with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. From the Medical Division, Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Salisbury, United Kingdom. Presented at the 7th International Symposium of Weapons Traumatology and Wound Ballistics, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 1994. Address for reprints: G. J. Cooper, Trauma Section, Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom SP4 0JQ.