Military personnel are exposed to a variety of stressors throughout their career, from training and separation from family to potentially traumatic experiences in combat environments. However, not all individuals exposed to the same stressors will develop mental health problems. As well, of those that do, symptoms may vary in intensity, and different degrees of dysfunction may be apparent in in...

BACKGROUND Veterans comprise a disproportionate fraction of the nation's homeless population, with women veterans up to four times more likely to be homeless than non-veteran women. This paper provides a grounded description of women veterans' pathways into homelessness. METHODS Three focus groups were held in Los Angeles, California, with a total of 29 homeless women veterans. RESULTS Five...

The 11,12, and 13 authors are listed out of order. The correct order is: Li-zhao Chen , Xiang-yun Li , Hong Huang , Wei Xing , Wei Guo , Jing He , Zhi-ya Sun , Anxiong Luo , Hua-ping Liang , Jing Hu , Zheng-guo Wang , Yun-sheng Xu , Xiang Xu 1,3,* First department, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn and Combined Injury, Research Institute of Surgery and Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical...

The era of global terrorism and asymmetric warfare heralded by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States have blurred the traditional lines between civilian and military trauma. The lessons learned by physicians in the theaters of war, particularly regarding the response to mass casualties, blast and fragmentation injuries, and resuscitation of casualties in austere environments, like...

Efforts to develop trauma systems in the United States followed the publication of the landmark article, "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society," by the National Academy of Sciences (1966) and have resulted in the implementation of a system of care for the seriously injured in most states and within the US military. In 2007, Hoyt and Coimbra published an artic...

Current Opinion in Critical Care 2009, 15:527–535 Purpose of review To bring together in one review article, the most current and relevant evidence relating to military trauma resuscitation. Recent findings The main themes highlighted by this review are coagulopathy of trauma shock (CoTS), damage control resuscitation, haemostatic resuscitation, the management of massive transfusion, use of adj...

Over the past century trauma care within the Royal Navy (RN) has evolved; wartime experiences and military medical research have combined to allow significant improvement in the care of casualties. This article describes the key maritime and amphibious operations that have seen the Royal Navy Medical Service (RNMS) deliver high levels of support to wherever the Naval Service has deployed in the...