he battlespace is increasingly dynamic. The volume of information available to all decision-makers is increasing. The uncertainties about the battlespace, whether due to cyber attack, miscommunication, mechanical fault, or other problems, prevents rapid, effective, informed decision-making. Clearly, the mere application of so-called “big data” technologies cannot address the scope of the coming...

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...

How embryonic stem cells maintain the potential to differentiate into multiple cell lineages is still unclear. In this issue of Cell, Niwa et al. (2005) show that a duel between the transcription factors Oct3/4 and Cdx2 can restrict embryonic stem cells to either embryonic or placental fate. The vulnerability of lineage potential to transcriptional perturbation may reflect an essential feature ...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new Internet standards track transport layer protocol. SCTP was originally designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks, but is also capable of serving as a general purpose transport protocol. As such, SCTP provides an alternative that may be better able to satisfy the requirements of future battlefield networks than the tra...

The update to the “Battlefield Acupuncture”1 technique, as recommended by Niemtzow, consists of first following the orginal protocol to determine the dominant ear. If—during this process—a single gold ASP needle (Sedatelac, Chemin des Muriers, F-68540, Irigny, France; obtainable from www.omsmedical.com) reduces the pain several points down on the pain scale, then a silver or stainless steel ASP...