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The forces of change impacting on the Australian Defence Force, and in particular the Defence Health Service, are making themselves felt. These changes are significant, and will produce a significant change in the way health care is delivered to the Services. In one of the early editions of Australian Military Medicine, Tony Austin wrote an… Read more »
Abstract Introduction This study was designed to document the morbidity of a population of Australian military servicemen and women. Methods The study was conducted in the outpatient departments of No 6 RAAF Hospital, at Laverton, Point Cook, and Defence Force Health Centre, Melbourne. The patients studied were male and female members of the Royal Australian… Read more »
In the early 1950s, the British mathematician Alan Turing argued that for a computer to be described as intelligent it must be able to deceive a human into believing that the computer was human.1Whilst we have yet to reach this stage considerable advances have been made in the development of artificial intelligence and expert systems…. Read more »
Macintyre P. Treating acute pain: The Royal Adelaide approach. Medical Review (Journal of AMA SAJ) 1997; Feh:10 – 1 Comment: Major improvements in the delivery of analgesia, especially post-operative, are detailed. The Royal Adelaide Hospital Acute Pain Service has treated over 13,000 patients since 1989. Most patients receive Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA). but epidural analgesia… Read more »
Griffiths GD, Lindsay CD, Allenby AC, Bailey SC, Scawin JW, Rice P, Upshall DG. Protection against inhalation toxicity of ricin and abrin by immunization. Human arid Experimental Toxicology 1995; 14:155-64 Abrin and ricin are highly toxic plant proteins which are very similar in structure and function and inhibit protein synthesis in eukaryotes. Rats have been… Read more »
A possibly newly reported aviation-related syndrome was described by Rich Williams, an Aerospace Medicine resident. It has long been known among civilian aerobatic performers that exposure to large amounts of -Gz can give rise to a phenomenon called ‘the wobbles’. which is a form of vertigo and can be debilitating for periods of up to… Read more »
SSN- Strategies of Submarine Warfare Tom Clancy Harper Collins: London 1996 This is a fiction work by Tom Clancy based on ‘SSN’. a CD-ROM game by Simon and Schuster Interactive. The book looks at 15 different submarine scenarios based on a limited regional war between China and the United States over the Spratly Islands in… Read more »
Few Survived. A History of Submarine Disasters Edwin Gray Since the first submarines of the 18th century through to 1995, some 1761 submarines were lost world wide. 313 by accident or error, and the remaining 1,148 being war losses. This is the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present… Read more »
