#military medicine

[ranahan]

Free tactical medicine learning resources

If you want to learn first aid, emergency care or tactical medical care for real, you will need to practice these skills. A lot. Regularly. There’s no way to learn them just from books. But if you’re looking to supplement your training, can’t access hands on training, are a layperson doing research for your writing or otherwise just curious, here are some free resources (some may need a free account to access them).

TCCC

The current gold standard in the field is Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), developed by the US army but used by militaries around the world. There is also a civilian version of the system called Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC). Training materials, Standards of Care, instructional videos, etc. can be accessed at deployedmedicine.com. You’ll need a free account. This should be your first and possibly only stop.

There’s also an app and a podcast if those are more your thing, although I haven’t personally tried them.

More TCCC (video) resources

STOP THE BLEED® Interactive Course

TCCC-MP Guidelines and Curriculum presentations and training videos

EURMED’s Medical Beginner's Resource List has suggested list of video materials (disclaimer: I haven’t watched the playlists, but I have been trained by nearly all of the linked systems/organisations and can vouch for them)

Tactical Medical Solutions training resource page (requires registration; some of the courses are free)

North American Rescue video downloads

Emergency medicine

WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care: approach to the acutely ill and injured — an open-access course workbook for basic emergency care with limited resources

Global Health Emergency Medicine — open-access, evidence-based, peer-reviewed emergency medicine modules designed for teachers and learners in low-resource health setting

AFEM Resources — curricula, lecture bank, reviews, etc.

Global Emergency Medicine Academy Resources (links to more resources)

OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology textbook

Open-access anatomy and physiology learning resources

Principles of Pharmacology – Study Guide

Multiple Casualty Incidents

Management of Multiple Casualty Incidents lecture

Bombings: Injury Patterns and Care blast injuries course (scroll down on the page)

Borden Institute has medical textbooks about biological, chemical and nuclear threats

Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers

Prolonged field care

When the evac isn’t coming anytime soon.

Prolonged Field Care Basics lecture (requires registration)

Aerie 14th Edition Wilderness Medicine Manual (textbook)

Austere Emergency Medical Support (AEMS) Field Guide (textbook)

Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) Guidelines

Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines

Austere Medicine Resources: Practice Guidelines — a great resource of WMS, PFC, TCCC, etc. clinical practice guidelines in one place

The Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Journal (you can read past issues without a membership)

Prolonged Field Care Collective: Resources

National Park Services Emergency Medical Services Resources

Guerilla Medicine: An Introduction to the Concepts of Austere Medicine in Asymmetric Conflicts (article)

Mental health & PTSD

National Center for PTSD

Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers

Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (medical textbook)

Resources for doctors and medical students

Or you know, other curious people who aren’t afraid of medical jargon.

Borden Institute Military Medical Textbooks and Resources — suggestions: start with Fundamentals of Military Medicine; mechanism of injury of conventional weapons; these two volumes on medical aspects of operating in extreme environments; psychosocial aspects of military medicine; or Combat Anesthesia

Emergency War Surgery textbook and lectures

Disaster Health Core Curriculum — online course for health professionals

Médecins Sans Frontières Clinical guidelines

Pocket book of hospital care for children: Second edition — guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses in low resource settings

Grey’s Quick Reference: Basic Protocols in Paediatrics and Internal Medicine For Resource Limited Settings

The Department of Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma: Trauma Care Resources (links to more resources)

#feel free to share and add more #tactical medicine #tactical combat casualty care #prolonged field care #austere medicine #military medicine #tccc #tecc #disaster medicine #wilderness medicine #emergency medicine #emergency medical services #learning resources #writing resources #mandalorian medics

[mashupofmylife]

unfortunately, I’m really starting to realize that the next 6 weeks of my life are going to be almost completely taken up by planning this fictional mission to defeat an international aggressor that doesn’t actually exist

#war college for docs #war college #so far i've had a partner every assignment #i think they might have decided that the shrink needs help #which is true #i'm not your girl for wargaming #military medicine #so close to being done

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Huge claim about origins of Covid-19 by leading Aussie epidemiologist

One of Australia’s most prominent epidemiologists who led a major scientific paper on the origins of Covid-19 said it’s a “credible possibility” the virus “did come from a lab” in China — a theory she said is backed by a “large amount of new information released in various congressional hearings” in the US. Professor Raina MacIntyre with the University of NSW said the possibility the virus was…

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#congressional hearings #credible possibility #GFT #MacIntyre #military medicine #natural origin #Yahoo News Australia

[changesmadeeasy]

Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth! Let's honor the remarkable contributions of women in military medicine. From pioneers in nursing to trailblazing doctors, their dedication has shaped the history of the @MilitaryHealth System. Explore their inspiring journeys here:  www.health.mil/womenshistory

#women's month #women's march #military medicine

[asploroopenaccesspublications]

The Spanish Hospital in Cayey in the Latter Part of the 19th Century | Abstract

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#Cayey #Military Medicine #Puerto Rico #Spanish Military Hospital #Spanish-American War #Tropical Diseases

[lsmolinari]

Military medicine changes affect force's past and future

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#changes #confusion #Military life #Military medicine #military recruits #military veterans #past and future #primary care manager

[theangrycorpsman]

Military Medical History and Advances: From Battlefield Wounds to Modern Medicine

The history of military medicine spans thousands of years, from ancient Greece to modern times. Military medicine has played a critical role in advancing medical knowledge and techniques, as military doctors have had to develop innovative treatments and technologies to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefield. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the history of military medicine and…

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#advances #medical history #military medicine #prosthetics #world wars

[briarpatch-kids]

Why are people using burrito test as an analogy for porn ban? Yea, nsfw bans target lgbtq people, there are problems with it, but there is no reason to compare these two bad things. One is objectively worse. If a grown adult cannot go to the bar, have a smoke, make some food or decide their own sleep schedule because someone else is depriving them of autonomy, that is worse. Worse than being unable to post ass. Especially because there are still plenty of places to do that. I was briefly involuntary institutionalized, so I speak as someone with more privilege than most, but it is not the same. It will never be comparable. my windows had bars, steel bars. I had to fetch a staff member to open the bathroom door. I had 30 minutes on the phone each day. Staff decides how long you get on the tv. Staff decides if you can listen to inappropriate music. Staff decides if you can go outside each day. Staff decides what’s for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Staff decides if you are eating enough. Staff decides if you are hiding something. Staff decides if you get a body check. Staff decides if you need to stay another day, another week, another month. And that is on the better end of the spectrum. That is sometimes the best possible scenario.

Even nice staff can decide for you, they always get that option, they could always pull what you have away from you.

I don’t think they meant to say it was the same, but they did. They said they have some sort of understanding of what it is like. That’s a lie. It’s not the same. When you don’t get that freedom, you are not living, you are not a person, you are a project, a responsibility, an inconvenience.

Sorry to put it on you, Im just angry I think. I wanted to put it into words.

You're good. I'm pretty angry too. I'm fully on the side of porn in the Corporations vs Horny Internet Users battle, but the comparison that poster used was incredibly selfish and lacked so much perspective it was infuriating.

I got lucky that I was only institutionalized for 6 months, but I spent those 6 months in a locked ward where the burrito test wasn't even a question. There was no microwave, no burritos, and they tried to threaten changing my "voluntary" status to involuntary if I didn't take Ambien. I had a roommate who threatened to harm me in my sleep and I had to go on a hunger strike to get moved to another room. I was treated VERY well compared to some involuntary patients, who could be medicated without consent as long as doctors claimed they "lacked insight" on why they needed treatment and thought you would deteriorate without it. (but as I said, they tried to strong-arm me into taking ambien so...)

#voluntary as in 'check into the hospital or youre going to military jail for disobeying the order to check into the hospital' #tay dont look #institutionalization talk #for those that dont know ambien is a hardcore sleep medicine that can cause major issues in its own right

[wyrdle]

The Last to Leave

AU where Oro joins Tsunade in leaving Konoha post the 2nd Shinobi war, rather than getting with Danzo and terrible experiments and such. More info under the cut

I was partially inspired by this wonderful Tsunade centric fic, and thought about how Tsunade, even in grief, channeled it into something productive. In this case, I thoroughly enjoy the idea of her creating a whole new system/organisation that prioritises saving lives/improving wellbeing. And the only way to do that is to leave the system of militaristic shinobi villages.

In this au, Oro decides to join her as head researcher, and the two go on to set up their own ways of doing things I guess???? Idk. But yeah, it kinda kills my soul to think about how the Sannin, if banded together and away from Konoha, could cause a paradigm shift in the Shinobi world, with Tsunade at the helm rejecting the shinobi way of life.

Jiraiya isn’t here because.. it kinda sucks that it’s canon??? That Dan dies sometime after he decides to stay in Ame. sdlkjfgsd. The trio is all toxic, but I think this AU’s tsuna is less so and her and oro keep each other in check.

#naruto #au #idk #orochimaru #tsunade #idk what the true plot of this is whatsoever #but i enjoy the thought of these two dropping their weapons #and picking up medicine and science for good #like working to their core calling ya know #it's a refreshing au because more good Oro fics I read always have him remain in the village #thereby continuing the whole advancing weaponry and jutsu and bla bla #so here's an au oro where him and tsuna hightail outta the military system to try and improve livelihoods beyond getting soldiers ready #i just really enjoy these two teaming up #and tsunade is such fun character to dig into too #i admit i... never really know what to do with jiraiya sldkjgd #he's not a huge fave of mine but I still like that the trio care for each other #perhaps he joins this team and becomes a teacher #then again idk. his skills don't really fit in #he could help shizune with human resources possibly #but #doesnt seem like his thing #dunno lol

[clove-pinks]

I was reading an (open source) journal article last night about the medical treatment of American POWs in the War of 1812.

A British officer inspecting the sick in hospital, 1813.

The gist of the article is that American claims of mistreatment are overblown, and most prisoners received adequate medical care (under the circumstances) from their British captors. Relevant to my interests in both military history and the history of medicine, it gives an overview of the treatment of wounds and illness and the results. The author notes:

Few formal conventions dealt with the treatment of prisoners of war during the period. While it was common for combatant nations to agree upon temporary conventions once hostilities commenced, generally it was quasi-chivalric sentiments, notions of Christian conduct, and a sense of humanitarian obligation that moderated treatment of prisoners, allowing, for example, parole for officers and sometimes for enlisted personnel and care for sick and wounded soldiers.

It seems odd that military personnel could switch between trying to kill the enemy and trying to save his life with medical intervention, but it's well-known that soldiers actually don't like killing people (see Men Against Fire by S.L.A. Marshall and numerous other studies).

#war of 1812 #military history #napoleonic #1810s #history of medicine #prisoners of war #war of 1812 soldiers seem so fragile to me #they constantly die from things like measles and tetanus #please let me give them chicken soup and antibiotics and vaccines

[mashupofmylife]

ever have a patient whose injury story is so intense and insane it absolutely KILLS you that HIPAA is a thing because they pulled off something incredible and more people should know how badass my late admit today is

#military medicine #I've had more than one or two of these guys #the stories they tell you are insane #and almost unbelievable but then their command is there backing them up #how do you do that?!?!

[fatehbaz]

On May 28, 1914, the Institut für Schiffs-und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, ISTK) in Hamburg began operations in a complex of new brick buildings on the bank of the Elb. The buildings were designed by Fritz Schumacher, who had become the Head of Hamburg’s building department (Leiter des Hochbauamtes) in 1909 after a “flood of architectural projects” accumulated following the industrialization of the harbor in the 1880s and the “new housing and working conditions” that followed. The ISTK was one of these projects, connected to the port by its [...] mission: to research and heal tropical illnesses; [...] to support the Hamburg Port [...]; and to support endeavors of the German Empire overseas.

First established in 1900 by Bernhard Nocht, chief of the Port Medical Service, the ISTK originally operated out of an existing building, but by 1909, when the Hamburg Colonial Institute became its parent organization (and Schumacher was hired by the Hamburg Senate), the operations of the ISTK had outgrown [...]. [I]ts commission by the city was an opportunity for Schumacher to show how he could contribute to guiding the city’s economic and architectural growth in tandem, and for Nocht, an opportunity to establish an unprecedented spatial paradigm for the field of Tropical Medicine that anchored the new frontier of science in the German Empire. [...]

[There was a] shared drive to contribute to the [...] wealth of Hamburg within the context of its expanding global network [...]. [E]ach discipline [...] architecture and medicine were participating in a shared [...] discursive operation. [...]

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The brick used on the ISTK façades was key to Schumacher’s larger Städtebau plan for Hamburg, which envisioned the city as a vehicle for a “harmonious” synthesis between aesthetics and economy. [...] For Schumacher, brick [was significantly preferable] [...]. Used by [...] Hamburg architects [over the past few decades], who acquired their penchant for neo-gothic brickwork at the Hanover school, brick had both a historical presence and aesthetic pedigree in Hamburg [...]. [T]his material had already been used in Die Speicherstadt, a warehouse district in Hamburg where unequal social conditions had only grown more exacerbated [...]. Die Speicherstadt was constructed in three phases [beginning] in 1883 [...]. By serving the port, the warehouses facilitated the expansion and security of Hamburg’s wealth. [...] Yet the collective profits accrued to the city by these buildings [...] did not increase economic prosperity and social equity for all. [...] [A] residential area for harbor workers was demolished to make way for the warehouses. After the contract for the port expansion was negotiated in 1881, over 20,000 people were pushed out of their homes and into adjacent areas of the city, which soon became overcrowded [...]. In turn, these [...] areas of the city [...] were the worst hit by the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, the most devastating in Europe that year. The 1892 cholera epidemic [...] articulated the growing inability of the Hamburg Senate, comprising the city’s elite, to manage class relationships [...] [in such] a city that was explicitly run by and for the merchant class [...].

In Hamburg, the response to such an ugly disease of the masses was the enforcement of quarantine methods that pushed the working class into the suburbs, isolated immigrants on an island, and separated the sick according to racial identity.

In partnership with the German Empire, Hamburg established new hygiene institutions in the city, including the Port Medical Service (a progenitor of the ISTK). [...] [T]he discourse of [creating the school for tropical medicine] centered around city building and nation building, brick by brick, mark by mark.

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Just as the exterior condition of the building was, for Schumacher, part of a much larger plan for the city, the program of the building and its interior were part of the German Empire and Tropical Medicine’s much larger interest in controlling the health and wealth of its nation and colonies. [...]

Yet the establishment of the ISTK marked a critical shift in medical thinking [...]. And while the ISTK was not the only institution in Europe to form around the conception and perceived threat of tropical diseases, it was the first to build a facility specifically to support their “exploration and combat” in lockstep, as Nocht described it.

The field of Tropical Medicine had been established in Germany by the very same journal Nocht published his overview of the ISTK. The Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathologie und Therapie was first published in 1897, the same year that the German Empire claimed Kiaochow (northeast China) and about two years after it claimed Southwest Africa (Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda), New Guinea (today the northern part of Papua New Guinea), and the Marshall Islands; two years later, it would also claim the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands (today Micronesia), and Samoa (today Western Samoa).

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The inaugural journal [...] marked a paradigm shift [...]. In his opening letter, the editor stated that the aim of Tropical Medicine is to “provide the white race with a home in the tropics.” [...]

As part of the institute’s agenda to support the expansion of the Empire through teaching and development [...], members of the ISTK contributed to the Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon, a three-volume series completed in 1914 (in the same year as the new ISTK buildings) and published in 1920. The three volumes contained maps of the colonies coded to show the areas that were considered “healthy” for Europeans, along with recommended building guidelines for hospitals in the tropics. [...] "Natives" were given separate facilities [...]. The hospital at the ISTK was similarly divided according to identity. An essentializing belief in “intrinsic factors” determined by skin color, constitutive to Tropical Medicine, materialized in the building’s circulation. Potential patients were assessed in the main building to determine their next destination in the hospital. A room labeled “Farbige” (colored) - visible in both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications - shows that the hospital segregated people of color from whites. [...]

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Despite belonging to two different disciplines [medicine and architecture], both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications articulate an understanding of health [...] that is linked to concepts of identity separating white upper-class German Europeans from others. [In] Hamburg [...] recent growth of the shipping industry and overt engagement of the German Empire in colonialism brought even more distant global connections to its port. For Schumacher, Hamburg’s presence in a global network meant it needed to strengthen its local identity and economy [by purposefully seeking to showcase "traditional" northern German neo-gothic brickwork while elevating local brick industry] lest it grow too far from its roots. In the case of Tropical Medicine at the ISTK, the “tropics” seemed to act as a foil for the European identity - a constructed category through which the European identity could redescribe itself by exclusion [...].

What it meant to be sick or healthy was taken up by both medicine and architecture - [...] neither in a vacuum.

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All text above by: Carrie Bly. "Mediums of Medicine: The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg". Sick Architecture series published by e-flux Architecture. November 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

#abolition #ecology #sorry i know its long ive been looking at this in my drafts for a long long time trying to condense #but its such a rich comparison that i didnt wanna lessen the impact of blys work here #bly in 2022 did dissertation defense in architecture history and theory on political economy of steel in US in 20s and 30 #add this to our conversations about brazilian eugenics in 1930s explicitly conflating hygiene modernist architecture and white supremacy #and british tropical medicine establishment in colonial india #and US sanitation and antimosquito campaigns in 1910s panama using jim crow laws and segregation and forcibly testing local women #see chakrabartis work on tropical medicine and empire in south asia and fahim amirs cloudy swords #and greg mitmans work on connections between #US tropical medicine schools and fruit plantations in central america and US military occupation of philippines and rubber in west africa

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.

#sorry but it doesn’t work like that! #you can’t decry humans rights violations of a group that doesn’t even represent a majority of innocent people (by the way)… #…if you are actively carrying out a genocide under the thinly veiled guise of going after that group #Genocide which is y’know one of the greatest violations of human rights since it seeks to completely eradicate one group of people. #like there are innocent people being caught in the crosshairs on both sides #not everyone living in Israel or who is Jewish supports the Israel government’s bombings of Gaza #not every Palestinian supports Hamas or condones their brutal attacks on innocent civilians #but to try and conflate the actions of a militant group to represent the thinking of all of the citizens and be an excuse to destroy them… #…isn’t right and deserves to be held accountable #also stop acting like there is not a massive power imbalance present #Israel has the Iron Dome and their own military forces and funding from the U.S. #Hamas has missels and stock piled resources from funding from Iran #Israel controls the food water fuel and medicine access to those that have been forced to live in Gaza #they are not in any way shape or form on equal footing which doesn’t make this a ‘war’ #I can’t wrap my head around the fact that one of the groups persecuted in one of the most horrifying genocides is currently conducting… #…a genocide on another group of people #the rhetoric of gov’t officials from Israel dehumanizing innocent civilians points to the fact that this isn’t about retribution #but to conduct a genocide #if you don’t think that the current actions of the Israeli government aren’t wrong and are supporting it you can unfollow and block me! #like it’s not black and white but the actions that are currently happening are not acceptable

[small-spark-of-light]

heres some thoughts on Infectat from evadare!! i dont think he can talk, so he uses sign language :0

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #evadare #infectat #jacko #his clothing looks a lot like a military uniform #and since he was brought by Jacko to help get Rafe i figured hes a sailor #who ended up dying and coming back due to the infection #idk what caused the massive crater in the side of his head #i think he was hit with a canon ball :0 like it hit him from his front/back and went through #Agatha gives him potions and medicines to keep from decaying and to keep the infection from progressing #there are plenty of other infected #but hes the only one to keep his cognitive functions and what not #he doesnt remember much of when he was alive other than some vague memories of the war and the people he cared for #he doesnt remember his own name ;A; #sparks creations

[medievalistsnet]

#Henry V #England #medieval #military history #history of medicine

[sadviko-off]

my second work uniform ^ ^~

Did you think in Russia only doctors wear scrubs? - -"

I was tired this week, I was carrying bags with biological material, they are made of polystyrene foam, but each weighs 5 kg!

A friend drew me, I’ll posting her sketches from my sheet of paper again ^ ^"

#my art #art #me #my life #life #medicine #my medical uniform #uniform #military uniforms #medical military uniform #sketch #tradiotional art #traditional painting #my fursona