NATO Panel Sets Blast Exposure Limits To Protect Troops' Brains
NATO's Human Factors and Medicine panel also issued tiered monitoring guidance and an eight-area research roadmap, drafted with Military Health System input.
- Guidelines address repeated low-level blast exposure from artillery, mortars and munitions training, not combat wounds.
- Kathy Lee directs Warfighter Brain Health Policy under the newly renamed Department of War.
- Research roadmap names eight focus areas for further study into blast overpressure's cognitive effects.
Why it matters: The institution that trains soldiers to fire also sets the limit on how much firing may harm them.
Military Health System / Defense Health Agency (DVIDS release) ↗ · Jul 17, 20267/17/26