Word: shrapnel
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...emergency physician, an anesthetist, nurses and technicians. They carry with them a rudimentary field hospital in 70-lb. rucksacks. Their supplies include 5-lb. portable ultrasound units that allow quick and accurate diagnosis of internal bleeding and collapsed lungs. The ultrasound devices also can be used to locate shrapnel deeply buried in a thigh or torso. The teams also carry football-size electronic equipment for monitoring a patient's vital signs, small anesthetic-delivery devices and portable ventilators that help a wounded soldier breathe...
...draws and brush-covered hills along the border. Armored humvees with gunners inside are parked on the ridges, while the infantrymen below stalk through the wadis, or dry streambeds. One soldier thinks his buddy is playing a joke, hitting him in the back with a rock. But it's shrapnel. Suddenly mortar rounds are screaming in, landing all around the Americans. Sergeant David Gilstrap is bleeding; he has been hit in the face. A jagged dart of shrapnel protrudes from Specialist Robert Heiber's arm. It hurts like fire, but Heiber mostly feels anger. He uses his Leatherman pliers...
...Marine who received a Purple Heart in Iraq and helped in the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Nasiriyah in April; after being shot by an unknown assailant at a family cookout 12 days before his scheduled discharge from service; in Long Beach, California. Ung, a Cambodian immigrant, suffered shrapnel wounds in Iraq in early April. "My son is a hero for what he did in Iraq, but for him to die in America like this makes no sense," his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle. Investigators say Ung may have been shot mistakenly by a gang member...
...rumbled down the lane and into the nearby square--the anguished shriek emerging from a thousand throats. Panicked worshippers charged into the square, their dust-covered dishdashas spattered with blood. "It's a bomb, a bomb!" screamed a man, his eyes wide with fear, his face pockmarked by shrap-shrapnel lacerations. "I think they have murdered the Syed...
When the bomb went off, police sargent Ayub Alous Jabbar felt the sting from the piece of shrapnel entering his left thigh almost before he heard the blast itself. "Glass was flying in all directions," he says, his body still shaking from the adrenaline charge, 15 minutes later. By the time he thought to duck, it was all over. A giant black cloud was rising from the site of the explosion, just 100 yards away, half a dozen cars were ablaze, and people around him were screaming at each other to run. "Everybody was shouting at the same time,? Jabbar...