Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift
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Wien Med Wochenschr · Jan 2000
Historical Article[History of neurosurgical treatment of gunshot wounds].
The provision of neurosurgical managing care in the German field hospital during the IFOR- and SFOR-mission in the former Yugoslavia is a novum within the NATO. Penetrating head trauma is by far the most common type of central nervous system trauma observed in a military combat setting. ⋯ The decision of the German Armed Forces to provide forward-located neurosurgical maintenance is justified and will lead to major reduction of time between injury and surgery. In the future neurosurgical managing care in combat settings will be supplemented and improved by peer-to-peer networks through the World Wide Web.
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Wien Med Wochenschr · Jan 2000
Historical Article[Development of academic clinical neurology in Europe; a successful concept and its consequences].
Clinical medicine in the 18th century is devoted to Hippocratic tradition. Pathology is not a requisite in this concept. ⋯ The catastrophic increase of traumatic injury of the nervous system during world war I results in better concepts of clinical localization. At the beginning of the 21st century, the traditional view of the neurological science has changed the image of the patient profoundly, by the emergence of new diseases, disappearance of others and an altered view of the traditional neurologist.