BACKGROUND When traditional vascular access methods fail, emergency access through
the intraosseous (IO) route can be lifesaving. Fluids, medications, and blood components …

Over the past 12 years, the United Kingdom Defence Medical Services have evolved an
integrated 'damage control resuscitation–damage control surgery'sequence for the …

AIM: To determine the characteristics of military traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest (TCRA),
and to identify factors associated with successful resuscitation. METHODS: Data was …

Background COVID-19 has become the most common cause of acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) worldwide. Features of the pathophysiology and clinical presentation …

Military trauma victims are injured often more severely and by mechanisms different from
civilian equivalents, 1 with major hemorrhage being the principal cause of preventable …

We report the case of a 69-year-old man admitted to the emergency department of a UK
district general hospital with an extradural haematoma following closed head injury. He …

Human factors are now integrated into everyday anaesthetic practice, as a result of the work
performed over a decade ago looking at anaesthetists non-technical skills (ANTS). 1 Much …

After> 10 years of enduring operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Defence Strategic Direction
is returning to a contingency posture. As the first post-Afghanistan operation, in September …

Intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) is increasingly used for the treatment of poisoning caused
by lipid-soluble drugs. We report a case of reversal of cardiovascular collapse after the use …

Blast injury results in a complex pattern of tissue injury, inflammation and coagulopathy,
presenting great challenges in clinical management. The pathophysiology of blast …