OBJECTIVE To analyze the impact of the method of Gunshot Injury (GSI) (i.e. war injuries, stray bullets, and civilian fighting) on patient morbidity and mortality. STUDY DESIGN An observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Biostatistics Department of Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, Libya, from January to December 2011. METHODOLOGY Patients' records were analyzed with the method of gu...

The present study attempts to analyze Iraq war against Iran based on Parsons' subsystems. The main question aims at finding the social positive/negative functions of the war. According to the studies, the first effect of the war was damaging behavioral organism subsystem so that it couldn't realize its functions. Subsequently, the chaos spread to the personality subsystem. Except for the qualit...

This article traces the history of the Out-patient Services from its humble beginnings in the late 19th Century to just after World War II. The class of patients catered for, the disease pattern, the work done and benefits accrued are recorded.

BY MajorE. A. SMYTH, Royal Army Medical Oorps, Graded Surgeon .. [Received June 27, 1946.] DURING my three years as a Prisoner of War in Siam, I personally treated 637 cases of tropical ulcer in our camp hospital. This does not include hundreds of tropical ulcers who were treated as out-patients. The following is an exact copy of notes I made about his condition while I was still a Prisoner of ...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Spinal injuries have been known since antiquity and until the 20 th century, carried an inevitable fatal prognosis. Patients died either immediately from their intercurrent injuries and acute fulminating urinary tract infections, or they died in the following weeks from ch...

In the Rama mobile war hospital, intravenous (i.v.) anaesthesia was used in 78 patients undergoing surgical procedures lasting 4-25 min. Boluses of thiopentone (Group 1), propofol (Group 2), propofol + alfentanyl (Group 3), and ketamine + midazolam (Group 4) were used. Induction of anaesthesia, resulted in a mean blood pressure decreased about 15%. Apnoea of more than 20 sec was observed in Gro...

Joel Kupersmith, MD; Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD; Alex K. Ommaya, ScD; Michael S. Jaffee, MD; Walter J. Koroshetz, MD Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the foremost medical problems resulting from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006, 13,969 active-duty servicemen and servicewomen with incident TBI were treated in the military medical system; of those, 7.6 percent were hospitalized [1]. Whi...

In hospitals with low morale among nurses, Revans8 found that patients had slower recovery rates, suggesting that the quality of care given to patients was adversely affected by the nurses' attempts to deal with their own anxiety. In the event of war, members of the AMS would experience the psychological problems of civilian doctors and nurses. They would also be exposed to many of the stressor...

Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is a multisystemic illness afflicting many Gulf War-era veterans. The molecular pathological basis for GWS has not been established. We sought to determine whether the presence of antibodies to squalene correlates with the presence of signs and symptoms of GWS. Participants in this blinded cohort study were individuals immunized for service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm ...