ABSTRACT

Many, if not most, of the recent improvements in trauma care in civilian practice have developed from military experience. The British Defence Medical Services have been recognised as providers of exemplary health care. Although there will is an emphasis on trauma, this book also captures lessons from internal medicine and infectious disease, ethics (for example dealing with detainees – a particularly controversial subject), human factors, mental health issues and rehabilitation.Military Medicine provides the evidence and context for these innovations, and its unique and important account will be of interest to both military and civilian practitioners alike.

chapter 3|20 pages

Pre-hospital emergency care

chapter 4|15 pages

Emergency medicine and resuscitation

chapter 5|17 pages

Anaesthesia and pain management

chapter 6|19 pages

Intensive care medicine

chapter 8|13 pages

Torso trauma

chapter 9|35 pages

Limb trauma

chapter 11|29 pages

Head and neck

chapter 13|20 pages

Imaging

chapter 14|25 pages

Transfusion medicine

chapter 15|37 pages

Mental health

chapter 16|16 pages

Primary care

chapter 17|41 pages

Defence rehabilitation

chapter 18|9 pages

Paediatrics

chapter 20|12 pages

Ethics, legal and humanitarian issues

chapter 21|15 pages

Deployed experience at sea

chapter 22|25 pages

Education, training and human factors

chapter 23|18 pages

Developments in equipment and therapeutics

chapter 24|28 pages

The research dimension