Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
As I write this message, Australia is in its sixth month of responding to the threat of the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus. This has been an extensive test of…
This edition of JMVH focuses on training within theDefence environment.Contributions are international and of international standard.The edition begins with an overall paper by Leggat,Aitken and Seidl regarding the context of…
n 2007-2008, Defence Health Service (DHS) personnel and the growing band of contracted health providers cared for 53,140 permanent Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and 24,885 reserve ADF members1, not…
Airway management is practiced by anaesthesiologists, emergency physicians, critical care experts, and less frequently by specialists in other disciplines. Pre hospital personnel and military medics are also called upon to…
Supraglottic airway management devices comprise a family of medical devices that facilitate oxygenation and ventilation without endotracheal intubation [1]. “Supraglottic airway” is a generic description for devices that facilitate ventilation…
For the newly serving Medical Officer in the ADF (ADF MO), professional progression opportunities are both in rank and in competency level (CL). The requirements for promotion in rank and…
Explosions cause more military casualties (65.5%1), than any other combat mechanism of injury 1-9, 14, 16, 18. Injury patterns have evolved as a direct result of developments in personal protective…
The contemporary US Physician Assistant (PA) profession arose in the United States of America (US) from a critical need to augment and redistribute the medical workforce in the turbulent mid-1960s.…
Nikki Blackwell, Carole Foot and Christopher Thomas* *1st edn, 340 p, paperback with illustrations, ISBN 978-0-7295-3802-2 Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (an Imprint of Elsevier), RRP $83.95, 2006 Military practitioners have a…
Dermatology Expert Group. *Version 3. xxiii+335pp, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9804764-3-9. Melbourne, Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, AUD39.00, 2009. Apart from textbooks, including one recently received in this journal,1 there have been few handbooks…
This edition of JMVH focuses on training within the Defence environment. Contributions are international and of international standard. The edition begins with an overall paper by Leggat, Aitken and Seidl…
As I write this message, Australia is in its sixth month of responding to the threat of the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus. This has been an extensive test of…
