An Early Military Medical Service

Setting up an outpatient service for early medical termination.

OBJECTIVES In parts of the UK, demand for termination of pregnancy exceeds local availability on the National Health Service. The study objective was to report on setting up and running a new outpatient service for early medical termination under 7 weeks' gestation. Methods We describe the process of setting up the clinic within the confines of the Abortion Act 1967, the training of staff, acqu...

Usage of a Mobile Medical Information System: An Investigation of Physicians in the Military Service

This paper sets out to investigate military physicians’ perceptions and usage regarding a mobile medical information system during their military service in the Finnish Defence Forces. Data were gathered in September and December of 2005 by two semi-structured surveys. The military physicians (n=31) had positive perceptions of the mobile system, and have used it in their daily military training...

Does military service damage females? An analysis of medical discharge data in the British armed forces.

There is anecdotal and some scientific evidence that females in military service experience an excess of work-related injuries, compared with males. To investigate this more fully, we analysed data collected routinely by the Defence Analytical Services Agency on medical discharges in male and female personnel in the British armed forces. We found that for all disease and injury categories of me...

Military medical revolution: military trauma system.

T development and advancement of trauma care has shown stepwise improvements for centuries owing to the interrelationship of civilian and military medical systems. With respect to trauma systems, the sophisticated civilian trauma system in the United States was born directly out of the successes and lessons learned from the Vietnam War. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) took the lead in ad...

Military Medical Evacuation