Introduction. Military neurosurgery

Introduction to Recent Advances in Neurosurgery.

Introduction acute respiratory infections in military personnel.

Introduction. Alfred S. Evans Current Patterns of Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Dennis F. Hoeffler Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Army in the Republic of Viet Nam, 1965-1970. Jay P. Sanford Control ofAdenovirus Acute Respiratory Disease in U.S. Army Trainees. Franklin H. Top, Jr. Control ofMeningococcal Meningitis with Vaccines. Malcolm S....

BRAIN MAPPING IN NEUROSURGERY

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

100 Years of British military neurosurgery: on the shoulders of giants.

Death from head injuries has been a feature of conflicts throughout the world for centuries. The burden of mortality has been variously affected by the evolution in weaponry from war-hammers to explosive ordnance, the influence of armour on survivability and the changing likelihood of infection as a complicating factor. Surgery evolved from haphazard trephination to valiant, yet disjointed, neu...

Introduction: The role of the pediatrician in military medicine.

The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Section on Uniformed Services of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In April 1959, the AAP’s Executive Board voted to approve the Section’s creation, an idea that was conceived nearly 2 years earlier by an army pediatrician named Major Bedford Berrey, who saw the need for an organization within the AAP’s larger umbrell...