Multidisciplinary trauma team care in Kandahar, Afghanistan: current injury patterns and care practices

A Beckett, P Pelletier, C Mamczak, R Benfield, E Elster - Injury, 2012 - Elsevier
Multidisciplinary trauma care systems have been shown to improve patient outcomes.
Medical care in support of the global war on terror has provided opportunities to refine these …

Medical support for future large-scale combat operations

H Tien, A Beckett - 2022 - jmvfh.utpjournals.press
LAY SUMMARY Assumptions for how the Canadian Armed Forces cares for injured soldiers
on the battlefield may no longer hold true. Previous treatments were designed for …

Spinal injuries after improvised explosive device incidents: implications for Tactical Combat Casualty Care

S Comstock, D Pannell, M Talbot… - Journal of Trauma …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Background: Tactical Combat Casualty Care aims to treat preventable causes of death on
the battlefield but deemphasizes the importance of spinal immobilization in the prehospital …

[BOOK][B] The boundaries of Medicare: public health care beyond the Canada Health Act

K Fierlbeck, GP Marchildon - 2023 - books.google.com
While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health
Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act. This is the first book to …

Oral and maxillofacial surgical contribution to 21 months of operating theatre activity in Kandahar Field Hospital: 1 February 2007–31 October 2008

J Breeze, AJ Gibbons, JG Combes… - British Journal of Oral and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Our aim was to assess oral and maxillofacial operating theatre activity at the NATO
Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield (MMU KAF). We made a retrospective …

[PDF][PDF] Distribution of civilian and military maxillofacial surgical procedures performed in an Air Force theatre hospital: implications for training and readiness

DB Powers - JR Army Med Corps, 2010 - researchgate.net
The current military engagements of the armed forces of the United States, Operation
Enduring Freedom (OEF–Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF–Iraq), have …

Five months of surgery in the multinational field hospital in Afghanistan with an emphasis on oral and maxillofacial injuries

J Breeze, AM Monaghan, MD Williams… - BMJ Military …, 2010 - militaryhealth.bmj.com
The aim of this review was to assess the workload of theatres in the role 3 Multinational Field
Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan and to identify what period of day most emergency …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization profile of the trauma intensive care unit at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield between May 1 and Oct. 15, 2009

K Shah, MS Pirie, ML Compton… - Canadian Journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In the war against the Taliban, Canada was the lead North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) nation to provide medical and surgical care to NATO soldiers …

Medical lessons learnt from the US and Canadian experience of treating combat casualties from Afghanistan and Iraq

S Dharm-Datta, J McLenaghan - BMJ Military Health, 2013 - militaryhealth.bmj.com
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, established in 1965, funds Travelling Fellowships
and both authors visited hospitals in Germany, Canada and the USA regarded as centres of …

A predeployment trauma team training course creates confidence in teamwork and clinical skills: a post-Afghanistan deployment validation study of Canadian Forces …

T McLaughlin, P Hennecke, NR Garraway… - Journal of Trauma …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Background: The 10-day Intensive Trauma Team Training Course (ITTTC) was developed
by the Canadian Forces (CFs) to teach teamwork and clinical trauma skills to military …