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Hearder R. Battlefield legacies: The Australian collection of WW1 pathological specimens. Aust Mil Med 1999;. Rosalind Hearder BA (Hons) is a military medical historian who is currently doing her PhD in history at the University of Melbourne. There no longer seems to exist any documentation that records the name or nationality of patients from whom… Read more »
Bioterrorism, the deliberate use of biological weapons by a terrorist group, has become a major concern for Australian medical, government and military agencies over the past two to three years. The various forms of media, from reputable newspapers and journals to novels, documentaries and films regularly portray such attacks. In Australia, this depiction has varied… Read more »
The domain of military medicine has traditionally encompassed the disciplines of high-energy trauma management, tropical medicine, the management of the epidemic diseases of the Army and Navy and the ethos of preventive medicine. In the Australian Defence Force, unlike responsibilities undertaken by Service doctors in the United States, paediatrics and child care has not held… Read more »
“Japanese encephalitis (JE), the “Plague of the Orient”, is the most important mosquito-borne viral encephalitis in Asia.” INTRODUCTION Japanese encephalitis is one of a number of arthropod borne viruses (arboviruses) known to cause human disease. It is a zoonoses of water birds and large mammals, such as pigs. It is usually transmitted by the bites… Read more »
Abstract The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of providing adequate health advice and support to troops deploying within Australia away from base areas. This was developed through a briefing of a unit exposed to Ross River Virus (RRV) within SouthEast Queensland. The results of an epidemiological study conducted to investigate the… Read more »
Abstract The standard treatment of nerve agent poisoning is pretreatment with the carbamate pyridostigmine, and post-exposure therapy with atropine, an oxime (PAM, toxogonin or HI-6) and diazepam. Some of the literature published in 1998 bearing on this treatment procedure, and improvements to it, is reviewed in this document. A detailed study of the pharmacokinetics of… Read more »
