A personal view--6 months in a FOB.

abstract：:Under the laws of armed conflict military medics are deemed non-combatants, and as such are subject to certain protections and limitations. The non-combatant status is defined in the famous Geneva Conventions, which form the basis of the international law of armed conflict. The protections afforded to medical personne...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Wilkins D,Dieppe C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been stated that the application of a pre-hospital tourniquet could prevent 7% of combat deaths, however their widespread use has been questioned due to the potential risk from prolonged ischaemia. We reviewed members of the UK Armed Forces who sustained severe limb-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Clasper JC,Brown KV,Hill P

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:For military forces, the control of infectious acute gastroenteritis constitutes an old, constant and unsolved concern. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that the common bacterial causes are being overtaken by viruses. Norviruses are the most alarming group and norovirus outbreaks in military forces are regularly...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Delacour H,Dubrous P,Koeck JL

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The pre-hospital care of patients with suspected spinal injuries involves early immobilisation of the whole spine and the institution of measures to prevent secondary injury from hypoxia, hypoperfusion or further mechanical disruption. Early ventilation and differentiation of haemorrhagic from neurogenic shock are the...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Mackenzie R

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article argues that there is a duty of care held by the State to military veterans who have been technologically enhanced as part of their military service. It suggests that enhancements may be permanent, persistent or protracted and demonstrates how enhancements generate additional moral responsibilities from th...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Henschke A

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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：:The management of battle wounds of the colon has been safely established for many years, with primary closure of the wounds being discouraged. More recent work, involving large numbers of patients from civilian trauma centres, has challenged this. The appropriateness of these conclusions for the battle situation is di...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： MacFarlane C,Benn CA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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

authors： Lu Y,Rong G,Yu SP,Sun Z,Duan X,Dong Z,Xia H,Zhan N,Jin C,Ji J,Duan H

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：:The aim of military adventurous training (AT) is "to develop, through authorised challenging pursuits and within an outdoor environment, leadership and the qualities necessary to enhance the performance of military personnel during peace and war". An increasing amount of effort is being applied by all three services t...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Mellor A,Jackson S,Hardern R

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Injury Severity Score (ISS) and GCS can be retrospective markers of injury severity, but if used by clinicians to decide on the treatment of acutely brain-injured casualties at the point of injury may potentially limit interventions on people who may ultimately survive with good functional outcomes. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Bahadur S,McGilloway E,Etherington J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the decade 1968-77, 203 (12%) of the 1723 deaths in off duty British Army males were associated with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in excess of 80 mgs/100 mls. These deaths occurred in road traffic accidents (49%), acute alcohol poisoning (23%), suicide (9%), drowning (8%), falling from a height (7%), burns (...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Lynch P

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：: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

authors： Ryan JM,Sibson J,Howell G

更新日期：1990-02-01 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

authors： Bricknell MC

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:Tattoo removal from the forearm often requires excision and split skin grafting. The authors propose the use of a bloodless field to facilitate accurate dermal peeling, to ensure complete removal of the pigment, and to reduce operative time. ...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Hull JB,Corner NB,Roberts P,Attwood AI

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Phytophotodermatitis, otherwise known as 'Strimmer's Rash' is an unusual cause of a widespread rash. We present a case of phytophotodermatitis, which was initially misdiagnosed as chickenpox; the correct diagnosis was made after further careful history taking and illustrates the importance of taking a thorough history...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Wild G

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Infectious diseases are a frequent cause of morbidity among British troops. The aim of this paper is to describe the spectrum of infectious diseases seen when UK service personnel are evacuated for definitive care to the Role 4 Medical Treatment Facility based at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. METHOD:A r...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Burns DS,Riley MR,Mason A,Bailey MS

更新日期：2018-05-01 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 modified version of the J95 morbidity reporting system, called J95a, was used in the Multinational Division South West (MND SW) during Operation Resolute 2. The broad scope of the 'Other Diseases' and 'Other Injuries' event codes were reduced, with codes being added for specific areas of interest which were 'ENT Pro...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Owen JP,Macmillan AH

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is the commonest form of severe antibody deficiency. It is characterized by reduced levels of IgG (<400 mg/dL) and low IgA and/or IgM levels, recurrent bacterial infections, impaired antibody responses despite the presence of B Cells and normal or near normal T immunit...

journal_title：Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

authors： Lamb L,Richards P,Edgar JD

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00