Exploratory Laparotomy for Proximal Vascular Control in Combat-Related Injuries.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed the relationship between active duty status and daily insufficient sleep in a telephone survey. METHODS:U.S. military service status (recent defined as past 12 months and past defined as >12 months ago) and daily insufficient sleep in the past 30 days were assessed among 566,861 adults aged 18 to...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Chapman DP,Liu Y,McKnight-Eily LR,Croft JB,Holt JB,Balkin TJ,Giles WH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although research for accelerated resolution therapy (ART) has been predominately for post-traumatic stress disorder, ART has shown promise as a treatment for other behavioral health conditions as well. ART is a brief, trauma-focused, eye movement-based therapy that has been successfully utilized to treat a wide array...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Schimmels J,Waits W

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the M17 and M43 protective masks on stereoacuity. Twelve subjects were tested on the Keystone diagnostic series stereopsis test at nearpoint and the Howard-Dolman apparatus at 40 cm and 6 m. Stereopsis was evaluated without a mask and with the M43 and M17 masks....

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Harmel LA,Wingert TA,McAlister WH,Bachman WG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking prevention and cessation programs were implemented and evaluated in recruit training. Four groups of incoming recruits were compared: an education group, a no-smoking group, a health risk appraisal feedback group, and a no-treatment control group. Smoking behavior, perceptions related to smoking, and knowledge...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Cronan TA,Conway TL,Hervig LK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usability of a rapid point-of-care ABO-Rh blood typing kit was determined by comparing the performance of individuals with extensive medical training/experience to those with a lesser extent. Subjects were asked to use the blood typing kit with their own blood. These outcomes were compared to that listed in the su...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Bienek DR,Perez NM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water immersion can include aspects of both hypothermia and near drowning. We present a case of a 22-year-old active duty service member who became a victim of cold-water immersion in Alaska. His rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard and subsequent treatment in a small community emergency room are reviewed using a case ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Harman KR,Herndon TM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teratomas of the testis in infants are rare tumors which often display immature elements, disturbing in their histologic appearance. Although the presence of similar histologic features worsens prognosis in testicular teratomas in adults and in teratomas of infants and children presenting at other anatomic sites, the ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Hudson ME,Konvolinka CW,Deshmukh N

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model revealing the relationships between bed capacity, average patient admission rate, average patient length of stay, utilization rate, and overfill rate in intensive care units is developed and explained. Mathematical model predictions are compared to predictions of two kinds of discrete event intens...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Lamiell JM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the attitudes of 176 Israel Defense Forces officers toward combat stress reaction (CSR) in four areas: (1) the degree of personal responsibility the officer accepts for the treatment of the CSR casualty; (2) the type of treatment the officer views as most effective for CSR; (3) the officer's willin...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Inbar D,Solomon Z,Aviram U,Spiro S,Kotler M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythema multiforme and Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis are immune-mediated epidermal conditions with variable clinical presentations. Although their clinical presentations often overlap, they have distinct etiologies and potential outcomes, which necessitate specific management strategies. This ca...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Newkirk RE,Fomin DA,Braden MM

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic premise of symptom validity tests (SVTs) is that appropriate effort can be assessed because the designs of SVT measures are thought to be insensitive to all but the most extreme forms of impairment of memory. In patients with mild traumatic brain injury in particular, it is thought that failure on effort mea...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Willis PF,Farrer TJ,Bigler ED

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Superficial fungal foot infection is one of the most important dermatological diseases currently affecting military personnel. Many Thai naval rating cadets are found to suffer from superficial fungal foot infections and their sequels. OBJECTIVE:To investigate prevalence, potent risk factors, responding pat...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Ongsri P,Bunyaratavej S,Leeyaphan C,Pattanaprichakul P,Ongmahutmongkol P,Komoltri C,Kulthanan K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the history of battlefield tourniquets. The tourniquet, if used properly, is perhaps the leading lifesaving device available to soldiers in the field. However, tourniquet use has been surrounded throughout history by controversy and dogma which continue today. Only after examining the historical ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Mabry RL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As researchers examine the efficacy of interventions that simultaneously target more than 1 symptom, it is important to identify ways to help guide research and program development. This study used electronic medical record data to examine the covariation of multiple risk factors regularly assessed among primary care ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Funderburk JS,Kenneson A,Maisto SA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The development of methods that generate individualized assessments of the procoagulant potential of burn patients could improve their treatment. Beyond its role as an essential intermediate in the formation of thrombin, factor (F)Xa has systemic effects as an agonist to inflammatory processes. In this stu...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Bravo MC,Tejiram S,McLawhorn MM,Moffatt LT,Orfeo T,Jett-Tilton M,Pusateri AE,Shupp JW,Brummel-Ziedins KE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congress established the TriService Nursing Research Program (TSNRP) in 1992 to serve the nursing research needs of the military. The TSNRP advances the science of military nursing to support mission readiness and deployment, improves the health and quality of life of military personnel, and provides optimal nursing c...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Duong DN,Schempp C,Barker E,Cupples S,Pierce P,Ryan-Wenger N,Turner M,Young-McCaughan S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma and cancer are entities that are encountered frequently by surgeons and occasionally may exist simultaneously in certain patients. Illustrated here is the case of a man with a perinephric mass, discovered during evaluation for blunt abdominal trauma, which was originally thought to be a perinephric hematoma and...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Blake DP,Bessey PQ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared demographic profiles across two rural-urban classification schemes to determine whether rural-urban disparities in health status persisted among Veterans Administration (VA) users over time. Using demographic and SF-12 survey data collected from 2002 to 2006, we conducted serial cross-sectional analyses of...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Wallace AE,MacKenzie TA,Wright SM,Weeks WB

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To optimally practice medicine, and to live healthy lives, providers and patients need convenient access to authoritative information. The goal of this study was to determine the information needs of naval primary care providers and patients at sea to aid development of a digital health sciences library for n...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： D'Alessandro DM,D'Alessandro MP,Hendrix MJ,Bakalar RS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed differences in baseline, course of treatment, and post-quit variables of participants in a tobacco-cessation program to identify factors predictive of outcome that could be used as a focus for intervention. The program offered a 10-week course of transdermal nicotine replacement combined with educa...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Faue M,Folen RA,James LC,Needels T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:National Guard service members face deactivation from active duty soon after they return to the United States and rapid entry into the civilian workforce; therefore, it is important to examine employment among these Veterans. METHODS:The sample included 585 National Guard service members. Bivariate and multi...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Burnett-Zeigler I,Valenstein M,Ilgen M,Blow AJ,Gorman LA,Zivin K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:While previous studies have examined the stress of the military training environment, studies have not systematically examined the stress associated with attending the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). Service members assigned to DLIFLC endure intense academic pressure to succeed...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Sipos ML,Lopez AA,Nyland J,Taylor MR,McDonald J,LoPresti ML,Cabrera OA,Adler AB

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This article presents an emerging capability to project damage control procedures far forward for situations where evacuation to a formal surgical team is delayed. Specifically, we demonstrate the plausibility of using a wearable augmented reality (AR) telestration device to guide a nonsurgeon through a da...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Harris TE,DeLellis SF,Heneghan JS,Buckman RF,Miller GT,Magee JH,Vasios WN,Nelson KJ,Kane SF,Choi YS

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual fitness, an important component of combat readiness, has been found to be deficient in some Reserve Component units of the United States Army. We evaluated a program of monthly physical training in an environment of increasing emphasis on unit physical fitness in an effort to determine the effect on unit pe...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Powell GD,Dumitru D,Kennedy JJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers two historical military casualties in the context of present day Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) teaching. The death of Admiral Lord Nelson, Royal Navy, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 has been well documented while that of Lieutenant Luke, an American aviator, U.S. Army Air Service, in F...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Bridgewater FH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive Department of Defense deployment in support of Hurricane Andrew relief cast the military medical departments in a new role. Military medical personnel were challenged to apply the traditional principles of combat medicine to a noncombat environment, within the continental United States, within an existing ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Holsenbeck LS

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicidal ideation may be associated with all-cause mortality. Available research shows that treatment of depression reduces the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with suicidal ideation. However, this finding has not been replicated in a clinical population, where patients have various mental health conditions. W...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Shiner B,Riblet N,Westgate CL,Young-Xu Y,Watts BV

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis has been documented following transcolonic passage of bullets lodging in or near the vertebral column. It is becoming more recognized that foreign body missiles are not as sterile as was once thought--especially after passage through the gastrointestinal tract--and that this ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Miller BR,Schiller WR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:There are few studies of the economic impact or value of lower extremity prosthetic services. Results from this study can inform the value proposition concerning prosthetic services within military health, where over 40,000 Veterans with limb-loss receive care for their amputations through the Veterans Administ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Dobson A,El-Gamil A,Shimer M,DaVanzo JE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower extremity amputee stump ulceration, irritation, and pain have been a deterrent to consistent long-term or continuous use of lower extremity prosthetics. This study is the first in a series that hypothesizes that these complications can be minimized through the insetting of a vascularized plantar free flap (VPFF)...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Smith LN,Richards WT,Mozingo DW,Lottenberg L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00