The Triservice Anaesthetic Apparatus: a review.

abstract：:During the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, substantial numbers of service personnel survived devastating injuries, presenting significant challenges for early rehabilitation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Royal Centre for Defence Medicine personnel augmented NHS therapy provision, gaining significan...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Pope S,Vickerstaff AL,Wareham AP

更新日期：2017-04-01 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

authors： Kim HJ,Park JK,Park SC,Kim YG,Choi H,Ko JI,Kim MK,Jeong YB,Shin YS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who presented with recurrent bilateral knee effusions was found to have positive serum syphilis serology. She was treated with oral erythromycin to a total of 40 grams and intra-articular injection of steroids in the right knee joint. Late congenital syphilitic arthritis is discussed with a review of the lit...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Kabuubi JB

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ten-week Professionally Qualified Officers (PQO) course has been running successfully for a number of years and focuses on the values of officership, leadership and command. This article compares the principals embodied in the "Sandhurst Ethos" and the General Medical Council's "Duties of a Doctor" and examines ho...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Moss AS

更新日期：2012-12-01 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

authors： Forbes KE,Foster P

更新日期：2017-12-01 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

authors：

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Emergency medicine is increasingly compartmentalised. The Unified Emergency Care System (UECS) requires the user to consider every option for emergency care for each patient, in a logical manner that transcends these artificial compartments and recognises the relative priority of concomitant medical, surgical, environ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Morgan-Jones D,Hodgetts TJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk of cervical cancer in a large national cohort of military veteran women followed up for up to 30 years. METHODS:Retrospective cohort study of 5235 veteran women born between 1945 and 1985, and 20 703 women with no record of service matched for age and area of residence, using Cox proporti...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bergman BP,Mackay DF,Pell JP

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of a British garrison in Malta in September 1800, provided opportunities for Maltese doctors to join the Army Medical Department. This article follows the academic and military life of four Maltese practitioners, whose joint careers span the era of the Napoleonic Wars. ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bonnici W

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the first period of sick leave in military patients following a traumatic battle injury, and the role of primary care. To identify if and where patients perceived difficulties. METHOD:Participants were recruited from The Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Headley Court on their second a...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bailey TR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a UK soldier suffering multiple injuries in Afghanistan including a lacerated liver, complicated by acute anuric renal failure. His condition was stabilised prior to transfer to the UK using continuous venovenous haemofiltration. This is the first deployed use of renal replacement therapy by UK fo...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Nesbitt I,Almond MK,Freshwater DA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Role 3 Medical Treatment Facility (Field Hospital) in Camp Bastion (R3 Bastion) is acknowledged to be one of the busiest dedicated trauma facilities in the world. Casualties typically present with severe injuries and in physiological extremis. These casualties form a unique cohort representing the most relevant po...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Nordmann G,Woolley T,Doughty H,Dalle Lucca J,Hutchings S,Kirkman E

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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：:The clinical experience of an army surgeon in a military hospital in East Nepal is discussed. The truly general nature of the work load is highlighted and the need for a broad based general training in surgery for such a task is well illustrated. A high degree of interdisciplinary cooperation was experienced and was i...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Ryan JM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Military training facilities and operational theatres, and the stressful activities undertaken in such settings, are unique. Military personnel living and working in these environments are at considerable risk of the acquisition and onward transmission of a variety of respiratory infections. While these generally caus...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： O'Shea MK,Wilson D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Morphine auto-injectors are issued to all British soldiers on operations in Afghanistan who deploy forward of Camp Bastion, the main British base. Previous studies have reviewed the effectiveness of various pre-hospital analgesics, but there is no record of the knowledge and confidence of the relatively me...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Nelson SC,Wedgwood JT

更新日期：2015-03-01 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

authors： Moorthy B,Robertson H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an important health risk factor for military personnel deployed in modern warfare. In World War I this condition (then known as shell shock or 'neurasthenia') was such a problem that 'forward psychiatry' was begun by French doctors in 1915. Some British doctors tried general an...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： McKenzie AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Australian Army recently adopted the British concept of hospital exercise (HOSPEX) as a means of evaluating the capabilities of its deployable NATO Role 2E hospital, the 2nd General Health Battalion. The Australian approach to HOSPEX differs from the original UK model. This article describes the reasons why the Au...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Gill G,Butt P,Reade MC,Crozier J,Williams A,Thomas T,Flint B,Matthews G,Duff N,Brown G,Chambers A,Courtenay B,Innes D,Malley BO

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to an Urgent Operational Requirement, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigated, designed, developed, trialled and subsequently fielded a Tiered Pelvic Protection System to service personnel deployed on Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan. An Urgent Statement of User Requirement (USUR) was drafted in orde...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Lewis EA,Pigott MA,Randall A,Hepper AE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical mechanism of blunt impact injuries to thoracic and abdominal viscera is often conveniently described simply in terms of "crush"--this is an over-simplification. Any impact to the torso does result in the rapid displacement of the body wall which may lacerate and contuse underlying viscera, but this simple...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Cooper GJ,Taylor DE

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:The long-term effect of repetitive trauma by military parachuting on the lumbar spine is not well investigated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the development of lumbar degenerative changes during a 30-year follow-up in Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces (JGSDF) parachute infantry soldi...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Nemoto O,Kitada A,Naitou S,Tsuchihara T,Ito Y,Tachibana A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a major ethics crisis as a methodological approach to study secret science environments, part II examines the origins and organisation of the Applied Biology Committee (ABC), the first independent research ethics committee (REC) at Porton Down, Britain's biological and chemical warfare establishment since the Fi...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Schmidt U

更新日期：2019-08-01 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

authors： Royle CA,Phillips RK

更新日期：1993-10-01 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

authors： Boreham A,Bricknell MC

更新日期：2002-03-01 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

authors： Smith M,Withnall R,Boulter M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify reasons for inappropriate deployment of soldiers with chronic conditions to an operational environment. SETTING:Two British Army field hospitals in Kuwait, 08 February to 17 March 2003, during the period of troop concentration prior to war-fighting (Operation Telic). POPULATION:All British military pe...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Hodgetts TJ,Greasley LA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00