Mapping of WDMET in AIS 2005 and AIS 2005 Military

摘要

Prior to current efforts to document combat casualty care and outcome in OEF/OIF, the WDMET was the largest collection of detailed combat casualty injuries available to guide military medical planners. The WDMET database collected in the later half of the Vietnam War remains a valuable research tool. This project has mapped some 7832 patient's injuries from over 3, 000 combat incidents that are recorded in the WDMET into contemporary injury severity taxonomies including injury severity scoring. The IECC is a collection of other combat casualty injury data (American, British and Israeli) also mapped from AIS-98 to AIS 2005 Civilian and Military. The result is that the WDMET and IECC databases are now usable in a fashion that can relate to contemporary injury databases, particularly the datasets that are being developed from the contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This project has executed a fundamental step in furthering the understanding of the nature and severity of combat injury. It provides an analyzable database to combine or contrast with OEF/OIF data.