The Annual Meeting of SOMOS was held in San Antonio, Texas, in mid-December. The first lecture by Michael Bosse, a Gulf War veteran, focused on rethinking orthopaedic trauma priorities, with…
During World War I at Paschendaele the British Forces, including Australian troops, used tunnellers from the London underground and coal miners to dig14 mines and place a large amount of…
A FEW YEARS AGO, a French farmer discovered the body of an Australian soldier – namely Private Bosisto – near a feature called 'the windmill' close to a village of…
The Military Surgical Section of the RACS An¬nual Scientific Congress was held in Canberra on 10 May and 11 May 2001. The section was convened by Richard Nugent from Canberra.…
Dear Sir I read with great interest a most commendable paper by LTCOL Kerry Clifford on Defence Health Service or Health Advice Agency: “An alternative reality to the Stevens Review”…
The use of tourniquets in the Australian Defence Force The value of the tourniquet in an exsanguinating patient on the battlefield is irrefutable. However, there remains controversy regarding the use…
