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Neri DF, et al. Controlled breaks as a fatigue countermeasure on the flight deck. Aviat Space Environ Med 2002; 73(7): 654-664. BACKGROUND A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR FLIGHT CREWS is the…
THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE (ADF) has had an Aeromedical Evacuation (AME) capability in Dili, East Timor supporting INTERFET and UNTAET since September 1999. This unit, the Aeromedical Staging Facility (ASF),…
ANOTHER INTERESTING FORTNIGHT has come to an end, as our ADF ships and personnel pre-deploy to the Gulf. One of the key issues over this period has been the Australian…
AETIOLOGY ANTHRAX IS CAUSED BY the microorganism Bacillus anthracis, a large Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium which is commonly found singly or in pairs. The organism is capsulated in clinical specimens, but…
The Australian Policy Handbook, by Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis, was "designed for those who become embroiled in the sometimes turbulent world of public policy…".1 Given the substantial changes to…
THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE (ADF) Reserves (Medical Branch) has recently received publicity in unexpected quarters such as the North Shore Times Newspaper 1. The article recognised the recruitment of specialists…
Background: IN JANUARY 1995, the Compulsory Health Insurance Law came into effect in Israel. The legisla¬tion was an egalitarian move that set forth that every resident of the State of…
THE EFFICIENT USE OF DEPLOYED PERSONNEL in the Area of Operations (AO) is essential. This often requires personnel to perform tasks beyond the scope of their normal duties. Medical personnel…
THERMOBARIC MUNITIONS ARE those munitions that, by design, produce more heat and overpressure than con¬ventional explosives by exploding a vapour in the blast zone. Their main use initially was in…
THIS IS THE SECOND OF A TWO-PART ARTICLE on English naval medicine during the Tudor period. Both parts follow a previous article on medieval naval medicine, with the same aim…
