Pilgrimage Respecified: Falklands War Veterans’ Accounts of their Returns to the Falkland Islands

Medicine in the Falklands. A review of the medical services in the Falkland Islands before and after the war of 1982.

As a result of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in April 1982 and the reoccupation of the Islands by the British Task Force, certain inevitable changes in the Medical Services of the Islands have occurred. This paper describes the Medical Services pre and post-war.

Medicine in the Falkland Islands.

Resuscitation experience in the Falkland Islands campaign.

The recent campaign to retake the Falkland Islands was a novel military exercise from many points of view. This was particularly so for the medical support, which required much improvisation at all levels. Several surgical teams from the Royal Navy and the Royal Army Medical Corps were deployed in support of both the fleet and the troops on land. Two Royal Naval teams embarked in SS Canberra, a...

Geochemically diverse Gondwana magmatism, Falkland Islands

Military cold injury during the war in the Falkland Islands 1982: an evaluation of possible risk factors.

Throughout the history of war, there have been many instances when the cold has ravaged armies more effectively than their enemies. Delineated risk factors are restricted to negro origins, previous cold injury, moderate but not heavy smoking and the possession of blood group O. No attention has been directed to the possibility that abnormal blood constituents could feasibly predispose to the de...