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Military Medical Student Experiences during a Prolonged Casualty Care Simulation

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…

Does Current Policy Support Reproductive Health of Australian Defence Force Veterans? A Review of Australian Defence Force Policy

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…