During the summer of 1985, 45 soldiers with heat illness were admitted to the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong. Twelve had severe heat stroke, the remainder heat exhaustion. This paper discusses the management and prevention of heat illness in the military context.

China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Beijing, China The Xijing Hospital affiliated to 4th Military Medical University, Dept. Endocrinology, Xi'an, China The Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Nanjing, China The Beijing Tongren Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Beijing, China The Wuhan Union Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Wuhan, China The Shanghai Changzheng Hospital...

BACKGROUND Military members, injured in Afghanistan or Iraq, have returned home with multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections. The source of these infections is unknown. METHODS Retrospective study of all Canadian soldiers who were injured in Afghanistan and who required mechanical ventilation from January 1 2006 to September 1 2006. Patients who developed A. baumannii ventilat...

The principle aims of pre-hospital care are to preserve life, minimise complications resulting from injury and reduce pain and suffering (1).To achieve this, the pre-hospital practitioner should be confident in the safe use of a limited range of analgesic and sedative drugs (1,2). In this article, a summary of effective and safe techniques for analgesia and sedation in both the civilian and mil...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a transitional care program for patients discharged from military hospitals. The study consists of two phases: developing the program and evaluating its effectiveness. METHODS The conceptual framework used to guide the development of the program was Meleis's transition theory. A quasi-experimental design was employed for this study...

Examination of hospital records from BMH Dharan and the large Nepalese hospital at Biratnagar has revealed a worrying trend in the incidence of acute encephalitis in the area of the British Military Cantonment at Dharan. The weight of available evidence strongly favours Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) as the aetiological agent. Serological studies from healthy Nepalese from the Dharan area an...

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M. Velizarova1, D. Popova2, E. Hadjiev3, N. Dimitrova4, I. Dimova5, D. Toncheva5 and K. Tzatchev1 1Department of Clinical Laboratory and Clinical Immunology, Alexandrovska University Hospital 2Department of Clinical Laboratory and Immunology, Military Mediacal Academy 3Clinic of Hematology, Alexandrovska University Hospital 4National Oncological Hospital, Bulgarian National Cancer Registry 5Dep...

This study investigated changes in job strain in female nurses serving in a military hospital system being restructured and the effect of these changes on psychological morbidity and quality of life (QOL). Questionnaire surveys were sent twice to 618 nurses working in three military hospitals in southern Taiwan at the beginning and at follow up a half year later. A Job Content Questionnaire was...