This study describes our experience with using a virtual reality simulator, CricSim, to enhance the training of combat medics to perform a cricothyroidotomy (surgical airway) while in Iraq. Over a six month period, 65 medics used the simulator as part of a Combat Medic Advanced Skills Training class while in Iraq and were asked to evaluate it. Students self-assessed comfort level with the proce...

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are the only conflicts to which many medics have ever been exposed. These mature theaters have robust medical systems that ensure rapid access to full-spectrum medical care for all combat-wounded and medically injured personnel. As current conflicts draw to a close, U.S. medics may be deployed to environments that will require the ability to stabilize casualties...

Ayurveda holds promising treatment regimens for health medics, starting from simple gastric disorders to life-threatening ailments, and most of its hopes rely on herbs plants. The prominence medicinal plants is rich in phenolic components.

F the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the Army Medical Department had a difficult time coping with conditions in the Philippines, where repeated enemy aerial attacks had been followed by Japanese invasion. Prewar emergency planning did enable the Army's Manila Hospital Center to care for casualties during the first two weeks of the war. However, after medics, patients, and great quanti...

"This book is written for all those who, in the daily practice of medicine are faced with the limitations of their memory and the finiteness of their minds." So the authors begin the preface to this entertaining book which offers hope to all of us who can never remember the major causes of hematuria. All we need do is bring to mind the authors' vivid mnemonic, "H-E'S G-O-T S-I-C-K P-L-U-M-B-I-N...

the present article on the ancient science of medicine, studies on one hand the emergence of this science and on the other hand its development and compilation. the article also researches the development of medicine in islam, muslim medics and islamic universities in which this science has been taught. finally the article discusses the history of medicine after the emergence of islam in iran.

To the Editor: Elmahdi Elkhammas [1], MD, touched on an important topic in medical practice, that of medical ethics; the acquisition, the practice and the teaching of. One can not help noticing that in the furore of medical conferences held in Libya over the last few years, a great emphasis was put on recent advances in various fields of medical practice. Very little time was given to fundament...

In the last years, a significant reduction in the number of autopsies realized in the hospitals of the world has been observed. Since medics are the closest people to this problematic, they can offer information that helps clarify why the decreasing of this practice has occurred. In this paper, data mining techniques are applied to perform an analysis of medical opinions regarding the realizati...

Experiments in pneumatic chemistry paved the way for medical innovation in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Thomas Beddoes and James Watt were instrumental in the spread of the use of new gas chemistry in pneumatic therapy, but they were far from alone. There was no shortage of experimental subjects, as the practice was quickly taken up by medics throughout Britain.