Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
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Practice Guideline
UK defence medical services guidance for the use of recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) in the deployed military setting.
Use of recombinant Factor VIIa (rFVIIa) for trauma is currently an 'off label' use. There are reports of rFVIIa contributing to the successful outcome of military trauma patients. This paper sets out the current position of the UK Defence Medical Services with regard to using rFVIIa in military trauma.
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To establish the pre-hospital timelines for seriously injured UK military casualties on OP HERRICK. ⋯ The public perception of excessive timelines for pre-hospital care in Afghanistan has been distorted. The ground truth is a pre-hospital time less than one quarter of the cited 7 hours for the seriously injured subset of UK Service personnel.
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Historical Article
Military intensive care part 1. A historical review.
ICU is a product of clinical developments, technological advances, social changes and history. Military ICU reflects all of these as well as deployed operational experience. Having considered how military ICU got to where it is, the next article will consider current practice.