THE HOSPITALS AND THEIR PURPOSE During the planning for the invasion of Mainland Europe in 1944, (D-Day), one consideration was the possibility of there being large numbers of Civilian casualties, which together with the possibility of severe damage to the local Hospitals, might lead to the Military hospitals being unable to cope. The idea therefore arose of creating small 50 bed mobile Hospita...

BACKGROUND Contemporary war-related studies focus primarily on adults with few reporting the injuries sustained in local pediatric populations. The objective of this study is to characterize pediatric vascular trauma at US military hospitals in wartime Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS Review of the Department of Defense Trauma Registry (DoDTR) (2002-2011) identified patients (1-17 years old) tre...

civil hospitals. Any peculiarities of military service, therefore, which affect the employment ofListerism, do not operate in them to any great extent ; and in them, the antiseptic treatment may be rigorously carried out, unaffected by the disadvantages under which other descriptions of military hospitals exist, as regards the practice and development of this method of surgical treatment. Yet, ...

Since 2001 military nurses have successfully supported military operations in deployed field hospitals in both Iraq and Afghanistan. These deployments have presented unique challenges for military nurses. This article reviews the literature on the experience of nurses during these deployments and, using a thematic analysis approach, aims to understand their experience. The results provide an in...

Since 2001 military nurses have successfully supported military operations in deployed field hospitals in both Iraq and Afghanistan. These deployments have presented unique challenges for military nurses. This article reviews the literature on the experience of nurses during these deployments and, using a thematic analysis approach, aims to understand their experience. The results provide an in...

Observational, descriptive, exploratory, case study with the objective of measuring the stimulus-response time of the team to alarms monitoring invasive blood pressure (IBP) and analyzing the implications of this time for the safety of the patient From January to March 2013, 60 hours of structured observation were conducted with registration of the alarms activated by IBP monitors in an adult I...

This paper describes the pattern of diving accidents treated in a military hospital-based recompression chamber facility in Peninsular Malaysia. A retrospective study was carried out to utilize secondary data from the respective hospital medical records from 1st January 1996 to 31st December 2004. A total of 179 cases categorized as diving accidents received treatment with an average of 20 case...

José Pinto de Azeredo, of Rio de Janeiro, studied medicine and conducted notable experimental research in Edinburgh (1786-88), presenting his graduate thesis on gout in Leiden. Already appointed surgeon-general of Angola, he returned to Rio in 1789 and practiced medicine in Brazil. In 1790 he moved to Luanda, where he practiced at the Hospital Real and founded a medical school that did not surv...