Casualty rates among naval forces ashore.

Mine Countermeasures Requirements To Support Future Operational Maneuver

istorically, the Navy’s mine countermeasures ships and helicopters were designed for Cold War applications, which emphasized clearance of our own ports and gave amphibious assault low priority. Today’s naval mission requires regional contingency operations where friendly forces must be capable of projecting power ashore. For example, the attempted assault of Kuwait during Desert Storm by the U....

Naval casualty management training using human patient simulators

BACKGROUND Extended-evacuation or austere environments (e.g. naval, immature or depleted combat zones) are characterized by the lack of resources to facilitate medical evacuation in the "Golden Hour" from moment of injury. This may require the primary caregiver, often a relatively inexperienced general physician or EMT, to administer extended medical care in the field. We describe the Shipboard...

Naval Support Activity Hospital, Danang, Combat casualty study.

Cardiovascular disease mortality in British merchant shipping and among British seafarers ashore in Britain.

BACKGROUND The objective was to investigate trends in work-related mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) among seafarers employed in British merchant shipping from 1919 to 2005, to compare CVD mortality among British seafarers at work in British shipping - and ashore in Britain - with that in the general British population, and to investigate work-related CVD mortality in British shipping...

Commentary on "some observations on an epidemic of sand-fly fever, occurring in one of HM ships". 1918.

The ship in which I am serving recently underwent a refit at an East Indian port; owing to the unhealthy locality of the dockyard, the officers and men were accommodated ashore during the period of repairs, which was of nearly two months’ duration (August 9 to October 5), one watch being quartered in the local Sailors’ Home in order to assist with the work on the ship whilst the other was sent ...