Military internists and internal medicine subspecialists are physicians who generally work in traditional internal medicine settings. However, when deployed to combat settings, they must prepare and adapt their skills for a wide spectrum of complex, polytrauma, and multinational patients. There are limitations in personnel, equipment, and technical resources that make the circumstances complex ...

Introduction Fort McMurray, a city in northern Alberta, Canada, has experienced multiple traumatic events the last five years, including 2016 wildfire, 2020 floods, and COVID-19 pandemic. Traumatic often lead to increased mental health burdens affected communities. Objectives To assess if number of by residents McMurray correlates with prevalence severity issues experienced. Methods A cross-sec...

We conducted a survey of Irish Coast Guard Search and Rescue Helicopter winchmen to establish if their pain management scope of practice was adequate for their working environment. We surveyed 17 SAR personnel. 88% of winchmen have experienced scenarios where they were unable to reduce pain scores below 6/10. In seeking solutions within current Irish Prehospital Clinical Practice Guidelines, re...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the benefit of using multiple injury profiles (MIP) as an alternative to "primary diagnosis," for the presentation and analysis of multiple injuries in populations. METHODS Retrospective analysis of national trauma registry data in Israel between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2002. Multiple diagnoses per patient were recorded. A primary diagnosis was selected for eac...

objective: to assess the availability of trauma care services in a district referral hospital of southern india. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed during 2013 in a tertiary healthcare centre in southern indian. a detailed assessment of trauma care services was done in a 400 bed speciality hospital which is an apex referral hospital in the public health system using a che...