Military medicine
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The overriding concern in trauma care is not only to minimize mortality, but to maintain a functional human being. Treatment should first be directed to preserve the brain and the cardiopulmonary viscera.
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There is no current training or experience that can closely parallel operating in the combat theater. However, the use of a structured and systematic approach to patient care such as Advanced Trauma Life Support would have given those thrust into trauma care a format to build upon.
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The incidence and etiology of travelers' diarrhea was studied in a crew of 1,914 sailors and marines aboard a U. S. Navy ship during a western Pacific deployment. ⋯ Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was the most commonly identified pathogen (23%), followed by Giardia lamblia (6%), Salmonella (3%), rotavirus (2%), and Shigella, Campylobacter jejuni, and Entamoeba histolytica (1% each). In 66% of the episodes no etiologic agent was found. None of the risk factors thought to be associated with travelers' diarrhea could be statistically associated with the diarrhea group in comparison to questionnaire respondents who denied having had the illness.
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Sickle cell trait and rhabdomyolysis: case report and review of the literature.