BACKGROUND Military burns result from either combat or non-combat causes. We compared these etiologies from patients involved in ongoing conflicts to evaluate their impact and provide prevention recommendations. METHODS All military patients with significant burns treated at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research from April 2003 to May 2005 were reviewed. Injuries were categori...

BACKGROUND As US military combat operations draw down in Afghanistan, the military health system will shift focus to garrison- and hospital-based care. Maintaining combat medical skills while performing routine healthcare in military hospitals and clinics is a critical challenge for Combat medics. Current regulations allow for a wide latitude of Combat medic functions. The Surgeon General consi...

Combat deployment enhances risk for posttraumatic stress symptoms. We assessed whether attention bias modification training (ABMT), delivered immediately prior to combat, attenuates the association between combat exposure and stress-related symptoms. 99 male soldiers preparing for combat were randomized to receive either an ABMT condition designed to enhance vigilance toward threat or an attent...

OBJECTIVE Deployment to a combat zone is undoubtedly an extremely stressful experience. It was hypothesized that, when faced with an impending wartime deployment, soldiers with prior combat experience would report minimal emotional problems accompanied by high rates of somatic complaints compared with combat-naive soldiers. METHODS Self-reports of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and affe...

Background. Soccer, combat sports and motorcycling have all been classified as mixed in terms of their metabolism predominance thus showing a common multifaceted nature of physical requirements, which include aerobic capacity, strength, endurance, power and agility. Objectives. The aim of the current study was to compare allelic and genotype frequencies of four well-known polymorphisms among a...

this is a study of depressive features in 51 iranian combatants suffering from ptsd. dsm iii-r considers depressive symptoms as associated clinical features of this condition. dsm iii and dsm iii-r both accepted the strong evidence that ptsd is a form of anxiety and included it in the anxiety disorders category. it is true that many ptsd sufferers present with anxiety features similar to these ...

In this paper, an IP (Internet Protocol) -based Remote Combat Robot is conversed, namely VECTOR (Vigorous Efficient Combatant Tactical Operative Robot). The name VECTOR is chosen to depict the concrete physiognomies of the Robot which is assembled. This project is designed and developed to operate remote combat. IP communication is enforced to control every single state of VECTOR. Advantage ove...