Military Medicine Helps Treat Manchester Victims

Those injured in the Manchester Arena bombings and soldiers blown up by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan may seem like worlds apart, but the medical techniques developed on battlefields are helping to treat those wounded in the Manchester terror attack.

 A new book called ‘A Heavy Reckoning’ documents how military personnel have survived IED blasts and how that knowledge has been transferred into the NHS.

"The legacy from that medical experience in Afghanistan is being used on a daily basis in the NHS"

Among the cases featured in the book is Dave Henson, who is described as an 'unexpected survivor’ by the author Emily Mayhew. The former Army captain lost his legs in 2011 when he stepped on an IED. He has since gone on to compete in the Paralympics and the Invictus Games.