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, criticised the nature and speed of the medical measures employed by the British. This has focused particularly on the management of the typhus epidemic, erroneously claimed to be the major disease killer of the survivors, and which was the catalyst for the premature German surrender of the camp to the approaching Allies about 3 weeks before the end of the war. This review examines the veracity of this statement and the nature of the evidence on which it was based. METHODS:Review of all the relevant extant primary source written evidence both published and archived in major collections in London, Washington and Belsen, in addition to the relevant subsequent secondary evidence. RESULTS:Disprove the ill-considered and scientifically flawed attempts to discredit the RAMC and demonstrate that the RAMC can be shown to have made the correct prioritising decisions in relieving starvation as well as in implementing the appropriate public health anti-typhus measures and to have acquitted itself honourably. DISCUSSION:Underlines the pitfalls of basing sweeping conclusions on an imperfectly understood inadequate selection of the available evidence.
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J R Army Med Corpsjournal_title
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corpsauthors
MacAuslan Rdoi
10.1136/jramc-2015-000416subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-02-01 00:00:00pages
44-9issue
1eissn
0035-8665issn
2052-0468pii
jramc-2015-000416journal_volume
162pub_type
历史文章,杂志文章,评审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
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-2013-000064
更新日期：2014-03-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-152-03-05
更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Primary blast lung injury frequently complicates military conflict and terrorist attacks on civilian populations. The fact that it occurs in areas of conflict or unpredictable mass casualty events makes clinical study in human casualties implausible. Research in this field is therefore reliant on the use of some form ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 社论,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-2016-000678
更新日期：2017-04-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-136-01-08
更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Myocarditis, simply defined as inflammation of the heart muscle, is a commonly encountered cardiac disease in primary and secondary care, both in the UK and on Operational deployments. In the UK Armed Forces, myocarditis results in deaths as well as the premature termination of military careers on medical grounds. The...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-2015-000500
更新日期：2015-09-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-140-01-06
更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the largest in history. The three most affected countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, have faced enormous challenges in controlling transmission and providing clinical care for patients with EVD. The Chinese government, in response to the reque...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2015-000562
更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recurrent pyogenic meningitis is uncommon. Its aetiology is often associated with impaired host defence mechanisms. Two such examples are discussed. Case 1 resulted from an anatomical defect and Case 2 a defect of the complement system. ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-139-01-04
更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper is the first part of a two part review of the published literature reporting the military experience of heat illness. It summarises current concepts of the mechanisms for the development of heat illness. The reports of heat illness in the military medical literature from pre-World War 1 to the end of World ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-141-03-06
更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:During the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, many UK military personnel were killed or injured by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Insurgents sought to develop new ways of concealing and detonating IEDs, and UK forces invested significantly in finding increasingly effective methods of detecting and avoiding them....
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2018-001051
更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Night vision goggles have become an essential component of military aviation. They provide superior visual capability over unaided night vision, but there are several inherent limitations associated with human factors and systems limitations. This study used a questionnaire survey of Army helicopter aircrew to investi...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-146-01-05
更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Even in the middle of an epidemic of a very serious illness, outbreaks of other infectious diseases will continue. Clinicians need to be able to make rapid decisions about the nature of the outbreak and how to manage it. A balance needs to be struck between managing all patients as if they have the worst-case scenario...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-2016-000684
更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Belize, hosting one of the British Army's overseas training areas, provides access to challenging terrain and austere environments, which allows the delivery of training to soldiers on survival and combat within the jungle environment. A 26-year-old infanteer on exercise in Belize presented with progressive bilateral ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2017-000811
更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:By virtue of the Battalion I serve with, I was the first Task Force Doctor on to the Falklands. On Friday the 21st May, 2 Para made an assault beach landing, thankfully unopposed, on San Carlos beach, the RAP was with them. ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-153-03s-08
更新日期：2007-01-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1136/jramc-158-04-09
更新日期：2012-12-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2013-000009
更新日期：2013-03-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2014-000403
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tracheobronchomalacia is a rare cause of respiratory distress in children. An infant with tracheobronchomalacia is presented. The aetiology, pathophysiology and management are discussed. ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-138-02-08
更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The injuries likely to occur during a future general war will differ in severity and number from those experienced during recent short campaigns, terrorist incidents and natural disasters. If general war should break out in Europe, casualty numbers will lean towards the First World War rather than the Second in scale....
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-136-01-04
更新日期：1990-02-01 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
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-142-01-09
更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to evaluate the causative organisms in young male soldiers with clinical signs and symptoms after sexual contact that suggests a diagnosis of urethritis. METHODS:Between June 2012 and January 2015, male patients with urethritis symptoms that had resulted from sexual contact within 3 ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2015-000488
更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The vast majority of casualties will only require a common sense approach to their preparation for evacuation, by asking simple questions, most problems can be identified and resolved prior to the evacuation. Ask? Are aeromed teams available to undertake this task? (Contact them). If aeromed teams are unavailable but ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-150-01-07
更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Academic papers are an essential manner for describing new ideas and consolidating existing concepts in the field of military medicine. The academic impact of military medical publications reflects the extent and depth of recognition, acceptance and utilisation of the concepts transmitted in these publicat...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2017-000863
更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A method of comparing the quality of intestinal anastomoses performed in craft workshops is described. The equipment is readily available in any hospital, inexpensive and requires no technical construction. The apparatus accurately measures the intraluminal pressure at the first sign of anastomotic leak and a method o...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-139-03-06
更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article introduces a practical triage tool designed to assist commanders, jungle training instructors (JTIs) and medical personnel to identify Defence Personnel (DP) with suspected exertional heat illness (EHI). The challenges of managing suspected EHI in a jungle training environment and the potential advantages...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 社论
doi：10.1136/jramc-2017-000801
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper describes the reconnaissance function for the siting of deployable field hospitals. It reports two levels of reconnaissance, theatre/operational and tactical. The paper describes the factors to be considered when conducting the reconnaissance and the format of the reconnaissance report. ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-148-01-07
更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:Historically, burns have formed a significant proportion of the casualties of war. The management of burns in recent conflict has been found to be a resource-heavy undertaking, though its impact on both personnel and resources in current conflicts is unclear. A case analysis has been carried out in order to ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-2013-000100
更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A case of pentazocine induced hallucinations which responded to treatment with Naloxone is reported. ...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-130-01-10
更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This historical account, based on a survey of 250 medical articles written during and immediately after World War II, reviews the immediate treatment of frostbite in the American and German ground troops in Europe from 1941 to 1945. The American management was simpler and more conservative than the elaborate treatment...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1136/jramc-157-03-05
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The optimal fluid for the resuscitation of critically ill and injured patients remains the subject of considerable controversy. Hypertonic crystalloid solutions such as hypertonic saline provide rapid volume expansion, have an acceptable safety profile, and are easy to store and transport. Recent meta-analyses suggest...
journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1136/jramc-150-04-03
更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00
