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Posts Tagged military medicine
Dust in Afghanistan, Iraq may be Harmful
From: USA Today
Scientists say Pentagon misleads on dust study.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is falsely claiming its research shows that airborne dust in Iraq and Afghanistan poses no health risk to U.S. troops, say three scientists whose review of that research found it riddled with mistakes.
Military officials then falsely said the review of their research backed their conclusion that the dust in the two war zones is no different from that in California, scientists Philip Hopke, Mark Utell and Anthony Wexler say.
The Invisible Enemy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:23
“Behind the scenes, the spread of a pathogen that targets wounded GIs has triggered broad reforms in both combat medical care and the Pentagon’s networks for tracking bacterial threats within the ranks.
Interviews with current and former military physicians, recent articles in medical journals, and internal reports reveal that the Department of Defense has been waging a secret war within the larger mission in Iraq and Afghanistan – a war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.”
NDM-1 in a U.S. Military Hospital in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:18
By Maryn McKenna
… Deep in the back of the weekly bulletin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a note that NDM-1, the “Indian supergene,†has been isolated from a patient in a U.S. military field hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan.
It’s been a few months since NDM-1 was in the news, so let’s recap. The acronym (for “New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1″) indicates an enzyme that allows common gut bacteria to denature almost all the drugs that can be used against them, leaving two or three that are inefficient or toxic.
… You don’t even have to imagine what comes next, because we already know: Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii has been spreading through the military hospital system for almost a decade, with grave consequences for injured military personnel.
Acintobacter slipped by the military medical system before they noticed, and became established in military hospitals before infection-control efforts were prepared to counter it.
Navy Wants Doc-Bots, Robo-Ambulances
From: Danger Room
The Office of Naval Research recently announced that it’s looking to build a prototype medical robot it calls the Autonomous Critical Care System. ACCS’ first job would be monitoring critical patients’ vital signs. Eventually, though, the Navy wants its bot to provide fluid, drugs, anaesthesia, suction, oxygen and help regulate a patient’s temperature. more
Right:Â U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen provide medical treatment to a simulated survivor during military operations in urban terrain training in exercise Angel Thunder in Playas, N.M., on July 13, 2007. Angel Thunder is a combat search and rescue exercise designed to provide realistic training to test response capabilities and examine the integration of all Air Force assets in mission planning procedures and mission execution. These pararescuemen are attached to the 58th Rescue Squadron out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. DoD photo by Senior Airman Christina D. Ponte, U.S. Air Force.
Combat surgeon leaves big business for Army, front lines of Afghanistan
From: Army.mil By Sgt. Breanne Pye, 1st Brigade Combat Team, Public Affairs Office 4th Infantry Division
Photo Credit: Sgt. Breanne Pye, Public Affairs Office, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Div..
PART ONE: EMBRACE THE PAST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Flip through history’s pages and you will find countless stories of men and women throughout the ages, who have taken incredible journeys and overcome impossible odds, to become our most celebrated heroes.
Though the heroes from our history books are an impressive lot, if you’re looking for a modern day hero, you won’t have to look any farther than 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s 49-year-old combat surgeon, affectionately referred to simply as ‘Doc’ throughout Task Force Raider.
A former business executive for Burton Snowboards, Capt. Douglas ‘Doc’ Powell, brigade surgeon, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., is currently overseeing a mission quite different than the design team he lead with Burton, as he serves on the front lines of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
From: IDGA
LT Brian Ellis of the 3rd Medical Battalion discusses Pre-Deployment Medical Care at IDGA’s Battlefield Healthcare event. He details advances in pre-deployment medical training specifically relating to tactical combat casualty care. He talks about adaptability on the ground and teaching deployed medics on the ground to adapt training and supplies to get the mission accomplished. He gives experiences from Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
U.S. Military – Forefront of Medical Research
From: Danger Room
… With more troops surviving devastating injuries, the military is fast-tracking efforts in regenerative medicine, investigating risky measures to prevent lifelong brain damage — even employing acupuncture in an effort to manage pain and mitigate post-traumatic stress.
Some of the Pentagon’s extreme medical innovations have already debuted in the war zone. And with myriad applications outside of combat, these advances in military medicine mean that revolutionary changes for civilian care aren’t far behind.