Main description:

Many, if not most, of the recent improvements in trauma care in civilian practice have developed from military experience. The British Defence Medical Services have been recognised as providers of exemplary health care. Although there will is an emphasis on trauma, this book also captures lessons from internal medicine and infectious disease, ethics (for example dealing with detainees - a particularly controversial subject), human factors, mental health issues and rehabilitation.Military Medicine provides the evidence and context for these innovations, and its unique and important account will be of interest to both military and civilian practitioners alike.

Contents:

Preface

Role of honour

Disclaimer

Introduction

Contributors

Military abbreviations

Medical abbreviations

A note on operation names

Echelons and levels of clinical care

Acknowledgements

Colour plate acknowledgements

1. A brief history of Operations Telic and Herrick

2. Organisation of the medical services in Iraq and Afghanistan

3. Pre-hospital emergency care

4. Emergency medicine and resuscitation

5. Anaesthesia and pain management

6. Intensive care medicine

7. Strategic medical evacuation - The critical care air support team

8. Torso trauma

9. Limb trauma

10. Ballistic weaponry, blast and personal protective equipment development

11. Head and neck

12. Internal medicine and communicable disease including diet and lifestyle

13. Imaging

14. Transfusion medicine

15. Mental health

16. Primary care

17. Defence rehabilitation

18. Paediatrics

19. Trauma governance: Scoring and data analysis

20. Ethics, legal and humanitarian issues

21. Deployed experience at sea

22. Education, training and human factors

23. Developments in equipment and therapeutics

24. The research dimension

Appendix A: Forces deployed on Operation Telic

Appendix B: Forces deployed on Operation Herrick

Appendix C: Medical units deployed on Operations Telic and Herrick

Appendix D: Publications by author

Appendix E: Publications by subject

Appendix F: Extracts from the key findings of the CQC Report Defence Medical Services: A Review of Compliance with the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety

Appendix G: Summary of the report Treating Injury and Illness arising on Military Operations National Audit Office 2010

Appendix H: Campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan

Index