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Introduction The principal problem faced by the human cardiovascular system when exposed to a force environment greater than +1 Gz in magnitude is that the hydrostatic effects of the applied acceleration may overwhelm the system’s ability to maintain the required level of cerebral perfusion. When this occurs, G-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) results. G-LOC has… Read more »
The sixth AMMA Conference was held at the Hotel Sofitel in Melbourne over the weekend of the 29th to 31st August 1997. There were approximately 120 registrants, which, disappointingly, was less than the previous year. Delegates came from all States in Australia. There was a positive response from the delegates as to the quality of… Read more »
The 1997 Military Medicine Symposium was held at the Marriott Hotel, Sydney, on the weekend of 15 and 16 November. Jointly hosted by the Director Health Services – NSW, COL Bill Molloy RAAMC, and Professor Robert Lusby from the University of Sydney Professional Unit at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, and organised in his usual… Read more »
Review b Rus Schedlich Stephen Due, the Librarian at Geelong Hospital, has kindly donated a copy of his work “A Bibliography of Australian Doctors at War” to the Association’s library. This work cites over 500 books and articles written by or about doctors and medicine in war, from the Franco-German War of 1870-70 to the… Read more »
Gupta L, Ward J, Hayward RSA. Future directions for clinical practice guidelines: Needs, lead agencies and potential dissemination strategies identified by Australian general practitioners. ANZ J Pub Health 1997; 21(5): 495-499 There has been an increasing interest in developing clinical practice guidelines for general practitioners as a means of improving health outcomes. We conducted a… Read more »
Introduction This review aims to cover the whole field of published literature relating to the war service of Australian doctors. It is adapted from the introduction to my bibliography on this subject, which is now out of print but is available in the AMMA library. Our understanding of any body of literature depends in part… Read more »
The 1997 Director Health Services – South Queensland Exercise was held at the University of Queensland Medical School from 24 to 26 October. The theme of the conference was “Hospitals and Hippocrates. Service Hospitals in Contemporary and Future Operations”. The conference was opened on Friday 24 October at the United Services Hall, Victoria Barracks, with… Read more »
We had an interesting case recently aboard CV-62 (USS Independence). It was much like the case from CVN-71 (USS Theodore Roosevelt), as described by LCDR Lenny Klein (Spring 1997 NAS Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.14-15). During routine flight operations off the south eastern coast of Australia, the left main mount on an F/A-18 failed… Read more »
As I think I’ve stated once before, one of the great benefits of being Journal Editor is the right of last reply. However, in this instance, I write with some humility. Council of the Association commissioned the Secretariat to undertake a survey of members this year, and the full results are published in this issue…. Read more »
