UK Role 4 military infectious diseases and tropical medicine cases in 2005-2013.

abstract：:We describe a case of malignant duodenocolic fistula in which after a radical resection of right hemicolectomy and pancreaticoduodenectomy, the duodenal defect was reconstructed using a conduit of transposed ileum. This technique, not previously described, offers an alternative to 'duodenal patching', which allows onl...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Ohri AK,Ohri SK

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Backpack palsy (BPP) is a common aetiology of brachial plexopathy in military hospitals. We aimed to determine the incidence and risk factors of BPP in young Korean soldiers. METHODS:We identified enlisted patients who were diagnosed with BPP from a review of the medical records of all the Korean military h...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Kim KE,Kim EJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Defence Clinical Psychology Service (DCPS) is the professional clinical psychology service and community of clinical psychology practice within UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The DCPS provides professional clinical care, consultation and research in support of the UK Armed Forces. Regulated by the Health and Care P...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Norris R,McCauley M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UK military was continuously engaged in armed conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, resulting in 629 UK fatalities. Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) is a precursor to traumatic death, but data on military outcomes are limited. In order to better inform military treatment protocols, the ai...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Barnard EBG,Hunt PAF,Lewis PEH,Smith JE

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) in children is associated with a low probability of survival and poor neurological outcome in survivors. Since 2003, over 600 seriously injured local national children have been treated at deployed UK military medical treatment facilities during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflic...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Hillman CM,Rickard A,Rawlins M,Smith JE

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of successful management of a transcranial penetrating high-energy transfer injury in a 20-year-old soldier. The bullet traversed both cerebral hemispheres and lacerated the superior sagittal sinus rendering him unconscious. We detail the care received at all stages following injury from 'Buddy Aid'...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Hoffmann C,Falzone E,Dagain A,Cirodde A,Leclerc T,Lenoir B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a record of the UK Defence Medical Services (DMS) contribution to the UK response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa from the start of planning in July 2014 to the closure of the Ministry of Defence Ebola Virus Disease Treatment Unit at the end of June 2015. The context and wider UK government decisions ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bricknell M,Hodgetts T,Beaton K,McCourt A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) has justly regarded its relief of the appalling conditions found in the liberated Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 as one of its more glorious achievements. This view has, in the last decade, come under attack from historians who have, inter alia, crit...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： MacAuslan R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of British Military Hospitals was established between 1915 and 1918 along the estuary of the River Canche on the northern French coast. Their positions, now obliterated, can be identified from a plan of the time. With the growing realisation of the importance of bacteriology in the treatment of wound infection...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Meynell EW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The British Army liberated the German concentration camp at Belsen on April 15, 1945. The thousands of inmates (estimates range from 60,000 to 78,900 inmates), mostly Jews from eastern Europe, were dying at a rate of 500-600 per day from disease, and many more were being killed by the German guards and co-workers. Dis...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Trepman E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 26-year-old male British military nurse, deployed to Sierra Leone to treat patients with Ebola virus disease at the military-run Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Unit. Following exposure to chlorine gas during routine maintenance procedures, the patient had an episode of respiratory distress and briefly lost co...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Carpenter A,Cox AT,Marion D,Phillips A,Ewington I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 15 month period, all the scripts written by doctors in the Episkopi Garrison Medical Centre, Cyprus, were analysed. A formulary was produced by using the most popular items in that 15 month period and tested in a one month trial period. The idea was to find a practical and efficient method of producing a 'basic...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Morton IN

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Confirming airway patency and the presence of breathing has significant limitations when both the casualty and medical personnel are in NBC category 4R. In casualties with limited signs of breathing, IPE may adversely affect the efficiency of clinical assessment, and when the triage sieve is used this coul...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Tong JL,Taylor A,House J,Smith JE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate smoking prevalence of Tri-Service recruits, and changes in smoking behaviour at 3-year follow-up, by trade group and gender. Associations with educational attainment and deprivation were also assessed. METHODS: Analysis of a survey into the health behaviours of ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bray I,Richardson P,Harrison K

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To outline the characteristics and outcomes of eye injuries in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. METHODS:A retrospective review of military inpatient eye injuries, in one military region, population 250,000 soldiers, between January 2006 and December 2010. RESULTS:There were 709 eye injury patients (75...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Xiao J,Zhang M,Jiang C,Zhang Y,Qiu H,Chaloulias C,Suleman H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrorism is not a new concept but our need to prepare for the effects of bioterrorism has achieved a particular urgency. The use of biological agents provides a new set of challenges to professional caregivers, emergency personnel and Governments. These agents are generally not readily identified through the senses, ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Alexander DA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On Friday 16 February 2001, terrorists detonated a bomb under a civilian coach travelling from Nis in Serbia to Gracanica in Kosovo. 10 people were killed at the scene. 13 casualties were treated in the British KFOR hospital (Reynolds Hospital) in Pristina. Another 8 casualties were evacuated to the American KFOR hosp...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Vassallo DJ,Graham PJ,Gupta G,Alempijevic Dj

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 28 years old Caucasian woman is presented with acute tibial compartment of her left leg secondary to repeated self inflicted soft tissue injuries, together with literature review on Dermatitis Artefacta. ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Eskander MB,MacDonald R

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Body armour is a type of equipment worn by military personnel that aims to prevent or reduce the damage caused by ballistic projectiles to structures within the thorax and abdomen. Such injuries remain the leading cause of potentially survivable deaths on the modern battlefield. Recent developments in comp...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Breeze J,Lewis EA,Fryer R,Hepper AE,Mahoney PF,Clasper JC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the orthopaedic casualties evacuated (casevacs) to the Royal Hospital Haslar between November 1995 and April 1996 was performed. A total of 464 service persons and civilians were casevaced. Orthopaedic cases amounted to 55% of all evacuations. Of these, 54% were British Army personnel. Conditions necessita...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Cannon LB,Singer BR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most conflicts there is the potential that there will be Captured Persons (CPERS) whose medical care is the responsibility of the capturing army. The standard of this care should be to the same standard as that afforded to one's own troops. However the medical practicalities of maintaining such standards can be dif...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Simpson RG,Wilson D,Tuck JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Having served more than 4000 personnel including the peacekeeping troops, UN police and civilian staff, the Chinese Peacekeeping Level 2 Military Hospital has accumulated 1235 inpatient medical records in 4 years. Assessment of the records stored in the CHN L2 identified that the data collected by different ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Sun R,Tian J,Jia Z,Zhou N,Zhou S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Haemorrhage from the injured extremity is a significant cause of preventable death in military settings. This study evaluated the effect of training on the efficacy of the combat application tourniquet (CAT) and to define standards for military personnel. METHOD:Participants from a training tank battalion...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Unlu A,Kaya E,Guvenc I,Kaymak S,Cetinkaya RA,Lapsekili EO,Ozer MT,Guler A,Yildiz R,Petrone P,Harlak A,Kilic S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatigue in military operations leads to safety and operational problems due to a decrease in alertness and performance. The primary method of counteracting the effects of sleep deprivation is to increase nightly sleep time, which in operational situations is not always feasible. History has taught us that su...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Parker RS,Parker P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical Support Troop Bravo (MST Bravo) provides third line medical support for the United Kingdom Battle Group currently deployed on operation Grapple 2 in Bosnia Herzegovina. Standing operating procedures for the initial assessment and resuscitation of all casualties are based on the protocols taught on Advanced Tra...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Ryan JM,Bailie R,Diack G,Kierle J,Williams T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the evidence is inconclusive, most of it is based on small patient groups it is generally supportive of early, enteral feeding of critically ill patients. It has become a standard of care in the UK and as such should be encouraged in deployed operational ITUs. ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Henning J,Scott T,Price S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 53 consecutive cases of orchidopexy performed at the British Military Hospital Munster between 1984 and 1988 showed that the average of referral for orchidopexy was 4 years 7 months and that the average age at surgery for mal/un-descended testes was 5 years exactly. Sixty-four percent of al...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Corner NB,Bissett RJ,Hull JB,Roberts P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a large earthquake in Nepal, the experience of a small hospital in dealing with the resulting mass casualties is described. The value of pre-planning and effective triage of the injured is stressed, and aspects of surgical and medical care specific to earthquake victims discussed. Clinical and administrative...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Guy PJ,Ineson N,Bailie R,Grimwood A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both flexible and rigid cysto-urethroscopy are routinely used in the surveillance of transitional cell bladder tumours. This study addressed the issue of patient selection for either rigid or flexible cystoscopy. What proportion of positive findings at flexible cystoscopy and negative findings at rigid cystoscopy are ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Keoghane SR,Ritchie AW,Jones DJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical confusion, treatment failure and recurrence commonly plague the Management of Otitis Externa. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical attitudes and habits of army general practitioners and to review the recent literature. The results of a questionnaire survey showed that although all the respond...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Robertson DG,Bennett JD

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00