post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) may develop after a terrifying event involving physical injury or the threat of physical harm in war. eight years of war after iraq attacked iran (between 1980-1988) caused thousands of ptsd among iranian soldiers as well as civilians. many of those people are suffering several decades from this form of anxiety most now a complicated form of complex ptsd. y...

Risk Factors for Military Sexual Trauma: Pre-military Trauma, Psychological Adjustment, Combat Exposure and Alcohol Use at the Time of the Trauma Brittany Hollis Old Dominion University, 2015 Director: Michelle L. Kelley Military sexual trauma (MST) is a serious and understudied problem in the military. It may be a particularly important problem for women who have experienced pre-military traum...

introduction a mission of the military nurse is to deploy medical support for military forces on short notice. military nurses must possess a working knowledge of trauma management. peacetime military hospitals do not routinely care for severely injured patients. the military is challenged to provide multiple clinical opportunities for personnel to enable them to maintain readiness to respond t...

objectives this study evaluated the prevalence and characteristics of posttraumatic headaches attributed to mild brain injury in military personnel in isfahan. materials and methods a prospective, observational, descriptive study was conducted with a cohort of military personnel in military training during a 6-month period at the military training center in isfahan, iran. a total of 322 militar...

We examined military-related sexual trauma among deployed Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Of 125 729 veterans who received Veterans Health Administration primary care or mental health services, 15.1% of the women and 0.7% of the men reported military sexual trauma when screened. Military sexual trauma was associated with increased odds of a mental disorder diagn...

On June 14, 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a three-part report on the future of emergency care, underscoring the evolving crisis in access to urgent medical care in the United States.1 The clear threat of future terrorist activity and recent experience with natural disasters highlight the need to develop a comprehensive response system based on the integration of civilian and military...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether trauma exposure before, during, and/or after military service contributed to current levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and adjustment. Further, we investigated whether trauma exposure before military service was mediated or moderated by military trauma in its effects on current PTSD and adjustment. METHOD In this retrospective study, archiva...

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...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on development and maturation of the tactical evacuation and en route care capabilities of the military trauma system in Afghanistan and discusses hard-learned lessons that may have enduring relevance to civilian trauma systems. RECENT FINDINGS Implementation of an evidence-based, data-driven performance improvement programme in the tactical evacuation an...

Frayne, S. M., Skinner, K. M., Sullivan, L. M., Tripp, T. J., Hankin,C. S., Kressin, N. R., et al. (1999). Medical profile of women VeteransAdministration outpatients who report a history of sexual assaultoccurring while in the military. Journal of Women’s Health andGender-Based Medicine, 8, 835-845. To profile differences incurrent physical symptoms and medical conditions a...