Processing Phage Therapy Requests in a Brussels Military Hospital: Lessons Identified

Intensified Electrical Convulsive Therapy in a Military Hospital

Negative-pressure wound therapy in the military: lessons learned.

The utilization of negative pressure for medicinal purposes dates back to 600 bc. The U.S. military has been engaged in continuous overseas combat operations since 2001. Negative-pressure wound therapy has been in use in the treatment of casualties from these operations since 2004. It represents a new standard of practice in combat wound care; it promotes granulation tissue formation and create...

Effectiveness of Metacognitive Therapy in Reducing psychological and MetaCognitive factors in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder in a Military Hospital

Purpose: To investigate the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy in patients with major depressive disorder. The population of this study included all patients admitted to the Army Hospital No. 520 diagnosed with major depressive disorder from which 30 individuals were selected by using random sampling into experimental and control groups (n = 15 experimental and n = 15 control). Mater...

Orchidopexy in a military hospital.

A retrospective analysis of 53 consecutive cases of orchidopexy performed at the British Military Hospital Munster between 1984 and 1988 showed that the average of referral for orchidopexy was 4 years 7 months and that the average age at surgery for mal/un-descended testes was 5 years exactly. Sixty-four percent of all orchidopexies were carried out before the age of 5 years; 8 percent were car...

The Therapy of Shock: Some Lessons from Military Surgery.

The state of peripheral circulatory failure, referred to as "shock," is so frequentlv associated with the extensive injuries incurred during military operations, it may properly be called a malady of warfare. Not only is it encountered more frequently, but its severity far exceeds that ordinarily seen in civilian practice. It is thus possible to draw from the experiences of military surgery man...