More troops suffering severe head wounds

[Pale_Rider]

The insanity, the pain, and the suffering.

More troops suffering severe head wounds
Injuries prove devastating for doctors, too
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4839405/

BAGHDAD - The soldiers were lifted into the helicopters under a moonless sky, their bandaged heads grossly swollen by trauma, their forms silhouetted by the glow from the row of medical monitors laid out across their bodies, from ankle to neck.

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While attention remains riveted on the riveted on count of Americans killed in action -- more than 100 so far in April -- doctors at the main combat support hospital in Iraq are reeling from a stream of young soldiers with wounds so devastating that they probably would have been fatal in any previous war.

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Numbers tell part of the story. So far in April, more than 900 soldiers and Marines have been wounded in Iraq, more than twice the number wounded in October, the previous high. With the tally still climbing, this month's injuries account for about a quarter of the 3,864 U.S. servicemen and women listed as wounded in action since the March 2003 invasion.

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"We're saving more people than should be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert Carroll said. "We're saving severely injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the brain."

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"It's just the sheer volume."

[David__77]

1. I think the KIA is focused on at the expense of the wounded sometimes.

We must also remember that many Iraqis and Americans are losing limbs and will be permanently disabled. New technologies have reduced the deaths of Americans but there are perhaps more severe wounds relative to deaths.

[NMDemDist2]

2. good post being overwhelmed by the Falluja bombings

re post in GD later perhaps?

[Pale_Rider]

5. Artios' succient observation ...

... when he found the news story was ...

This stuff is just so horrible. I really hope Kerry gets out in front of this and proposes massive increases in VA funds. You can have my goddamn tax cut back. I'd rather pay out the money that way and get some quality care for these people than throw it into their change cups a few years from now.

I hate what these bastards have done, and I hate that they'd rather bankrupt the government than take care of the mess they've made. Assholes.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

Here, here, well spoken ...

[young_at_heart]

3. Saving more people than "should" be saved?

I can only hope that die-hard Republicans will wake up to reality!

[laruemtt]

4. re: the pic of that wounded soldier -

god help the family of that soldier and of all the ones they're showing on tv if they see those pics before the military contacts them. i guess it's necessary for us to see just what hell this stupid war is, but those poor, poor families....

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=511956&mesg_id=511956