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Background: The widely-used Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) has practical and theoretical limitations. The Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C) was developed to overcome these shortcomings but requires more psychometric…
Jasper Frese, Tobias Barth, Matthias Münch, Johannes Keller, Matthias Johann, Christian Lutz and Arndt-Peter Schulz
With a growing frequency of extreme weather events, associated natural disasters1 and military conflicts, there is an increasing incidence of fractures requiring emergency treatment in the context of ‘damage control’…
H Shahali and M Darvishi
These days, the world’s healthcare systems are facing the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and its associated disease, named coronavirus or COVID-19. This virus is a new human pathogen, and although there are…
R Mills Introduction This paper presents three 2019 cases of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) personnel with positive tests for urinary morphine attributable to poppy seed (PS) ingestion. All three cases…
Metamizole is an analgesic and antipyretic drug commonly prescribed in various countries. In young adults living in overcrowded conditions, such as soldiers in training camps, upper respiratory tract infection (URTI)…
This report outlines the use of tension/trauma releasing exercises (TRE) for invoking the body’s innate tremor mechanism in an Australian former soldier who experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following acquired…
A 38 year-old United States Air Force active duty male in excellent health presented to the flight medicine clinic with a two week history of shortness of breath, fatigue, and…
The case of a member of the Australian Defence Force exposed to a person-borne improvised explosive device is presented. Indications for post-exposure prophylaxis against blood-borne viruses in this context are…
Management of trauma is a challenging process which can be made worse in the austere environment. Austere medicine is essentially the provision of medical care without access to modern investigations…
This report outlines the management of a soldier serving in the Middle East who suffered a perineal injury while on out of theatre leave. He presented to a medical officer…
