Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium which has a rod shape and acid-resistant. The prolonged consumption of anti-tuberculosis drugs can cause serious side effects. Side effects from drugs, namely risk hepatotoxicity, marked increase in SGOT / SGPT value. This study aimed to determine relationship between duration use, dosage tuberculosis patients, had effec...

INTRODUCTION In Latin America, there is a preponderance of prehospital trauma deaths. However, scarce resources mandate that any improvements in prehospital medical care must be cost-effective. This study sought to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of several approaches to improving training for personnel in three ambulance services in Mexico. METHODS In Monterrey, training was augmented with P...

BACKGROUND Extremity injuries, which accounts for 20% of all battlefield injuries, result in 7-9% of deaths during military activity. Silicone tourniquets were used, by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers, for upper extremity and calf injuries, while thigh injuries were treated by an improvised "Russian" tourniquet (IRT). This is the first study, performed in the IDF, comparing the IRT wit...

BACKGROUND Disaster triage embodies all key features of dynamic decision making. Multiple decisions have to be made under time pressure and workload. Situations are often unpredictable requiring trainees to apply learned routines to novel conditions. Up to this point, psychologic theories of learning can provide only little support on how to train disaster responders for these challenging situa...

UNLABELLED Although many public health articles have been published detailing foodborne illness outbreaks, a medical literature search revealed no articles that detail a case study or a specific response of a deployed U.S. military unit to a potential foodborne illness. This article describes a recent public health case study of a U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) team sickened while deploye...