A Pearson

Articles by A Pearson


Treatment at Point of Injury – A Proposal for an Enhanced Combat First Aider and Health Technician Skillset

Abstract Management of trauma in the future operating environment might be significantly different from the recent experience in the Middle East Region if it were to occur in the context of hostilities between coalition, including Australian forces and a near-peer or peer-level threat. Specifically, reliance on rotary-wing aeromedical evacuation may be compromised if air superiority… Read more »

By LTCOL Charles H.C. Pilgrim , A. P. Chandra and A Pearson In   Issue Volume 31 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/03.2023-24814268/JMVH Vol 31 No 1

Training War-Time General Surgeons in a Peace-Time ADF

K Bender, A Pearson Introduction Until as recently as the second Gulf War, the skill sets of civilian general surgeons were readily transferrable into military surgical practice. The modern Australian Defence Force (ADF) faces an evolving issue where this is no longer the case. Civilian surgical practice has evolved rapidly, with newly qualified general  surgeons … Read more »

By A Pearson and K Bender In   Issue Volume 28 No 3 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-71873837/JMVH Vol 28 No 3