نتایج جستجو برای: casualty care
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BACKGROUND Operation Enduring Freedom is an effort to combat terrorism after an attack on the United States. The first large-scale troop movement (> 1,300) was made by the U.S. Marines into the country of Afghanistan by establishing Camp Rhino. METHODS Data were entered into a personal computer at Camp Rhino, using combat casualty collecting software. RESULTS Surgical support at Camp Rhino ...
In Hong Kong, the first casualty department was established in 1947 at Queen Mary Hospital, at which time its main roles were to take care of three patient groups: accident victims, police cases, and civil servants.1 In the 1950s, local casualty departments might have been regarded as first-aid stations. As population grew, in the 1970s hospitals as well as their casualty departments became ver...
Military Revolutions Murray and Knox equated military revolutions to ‘‘earthquakes.’’ These earthquakes forced a fundamental change in society and a state, and the state consequently altered the way it created and projected military power. Murray and Knox recognize five major military revolutions that have had that impact on Western history: the 17th century creation of the modern state and mod...
Since the beginning of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago, much has been learned with regard to combat casualty care. Although progress has been significant, knowledge gaps still exist. The seventh Extremity War Injuries symposium, held in January 2012, reviewed the current state of knowledge and defined knowledge gaps in acute care, reconstructive care, and rehabilita...
BACKGROUND The municipalities are responsible for the emergency primary health care services in Norway. These services include casualty clinics, primary doctors on-call and local emergency medical communication centres (LEMC). The National centre for emergency primary health care has initiated an enterprise called "The Watchtowers", comprising emergency primary health care districts, to provide...
Survivability From Mass-Casualty Shooting Events issued the following call to action on July 11, 2013. It is the second report from the committee, which the American College of Surgeons (ACS) played a leadership role in forming. The committee has representation from the ACS Board of Regents, the ACS Committee on Trauma, the PreHospital Trauma Life Support program, the Federal Bureau of Investig...
BACKGROUND It has been documented from a number of out-of-hours primary health care services that the utilisation of the services declines with increasing travel distances. In this study we have investigated the correlation between travel distances and the use of out-of-hours medical services for all Norwegian municipalities that provide such services at a single permanent casualty clinic round...
Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR) is a novel concept that draws together a series of technical and organisational advances in combat casualty care. It is consistent with and encapsulates the established concept of damage control surgery (DCS).
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Extraglottic airway (EGA) devices have been used by both physicians and prehospital providers for several decades. The original TCCC Guidelines published in 1996 included a recommendation to use the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) as an option to assist in securing the airway in Tactical Evacuation (TACEVAC) phase of care. A variety of EGAs have been used in combat casualty care over the past 20 ye...
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