Tourniquets are an effective means of arresting life-threatening external haemorrhage from
limb injury. Their use has not previously been accepted practice for pre-hospital civilian …

Conflict has historically driven advances in military medicine. Sustained casualty rates since
2003 for UK military personnel on Operation Telic (Iraq) and Operation Herrick (Afghanistan) …

This paper discusses mathematical models of expressing severity of injury and probability of
survival following trauma and their use in establishing clinical governance of a trauma …

Aims: To determine the incidence of avoidable cardiac arrest among patients who had
received resuscitation in a district general hospital. To establish how location and individual …

Aim:(1) To identify risk factors for in-hospital cardiac arrest;(2) to formulate activation criteria
to alert a clinical response culminating in attendance by a Medical Emergency Team …

ABC has become established as the ubiquitous emergency care paradigm, reflected across
the spectrum of advanced life support programmes. Military practitioners have been …

Aim To determine the prevalence of tourniquet use in combat trauma, the contribution to
lives saved and the complications of their use in this environment. Population All casualties …

BackgroundMild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is being claimed as the 'signature'injury of the
Iraq war, and is believed to be the cause of long-term symptomatic ill health (post …

Military trauma produces predominantly blast and fragmentation injury, commonly resulting
in haemorrhagic shock. Injury patterns to limbs are such that the conventional sites for …

Clinical governance is concerned with the application and enforcement of good clinical
practice [1-4] and the management of military trauma patients is no exception. To this end, a …