Military Medical Student Experiences during a Prolonged Casualty Care Simulation
Introduction Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) (previously prolonged field care [PFC]) refers to patient care over a prolonged time in an austere environment where evacuation is not possible.1, 2 Prolonged Casualty Care education is driven by the United States Military Joint Trauma System’s Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) guidelines, which are a ‘consolidated list of casualty-centric knowledge, […]
Does Current Policy Support Reproductive Health of Australian Defence Force Veterans? A Review of Australian Defence Force Policy
Introduction Reproductive health is of central importance to the structure of people’s lives and is fundamental to human identity. Increasingly, the importance of reproductive health is recognised at individual, societal and global levels. The issues encompassed are different for males and females and change dramatically over a person’s lifetime1. Infertility affects approximately 1 in 6 […]
Medical CBRN Defence in the Australian Defence Force
Major David J Heslop, Commander Neil Westphalen Introduction This article focuses on a specialist area of military medicine, following a series of recently published papers regarding occupational and environmental medicine in the ADF.1 They assert that high rates of preventable workplace illness and injury indicate the need to improve the management of occupational and environmental […]
Abstracts from the Literature
compiled by James Ross Knapik JJ, Hamlet MP. Influence of boot-sock systems on frequency and severity of foot blisters. Mil Med 1996; 161(1):594-8 This study examined the influence of three types of boot-sock systems on incidence and severity of foot blisters. Participants were 357 men undergoing US Marine recruit training at Parris Island, South Carolina. […]
Medical NBC Training – Where to now?
A.G.Robertson, D.J.Morgan-Jones Abstract Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Warfare remains as much a risk today as it has been in the past. With increased numbers of proliferating nations, increased industrialisation and poorly effective arms control measures, this risk is unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future. To prepare military physicians to deal with these toxic […]
Medial tibial stress syndrome in military recruits
James Ross, MB BS, FACOM, MPH Military basic, or entry level, training has been known to cause very high levels of injury in recruits. In some cases, 60 to 70 percent of trainees have been injured in an eight week period1,2. The majority of these injuries have been overuse injuries of the lower limbs […]
Tularaemia
Sue Sharpe Tularaemia is caused by the intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis, a small, pleomorphic, aerobic, Gram negative coccobacillus which requires a complex cysteine-containing growth medium for laboratory cultures. Capsules may form in tissues. The pathogen is not highly heat resistant but will survive freezing and drying. It survives well in the environment – especially in […]