United Kingdom Military Aeromedical Evacuation in the Post-9/11 Era

Patterson, Caroline; Woodcock, Thomas; Mollan, Ian A; Nicol, Edward; McLoughlin, David C

doi:10.3357/asem.4005.2014

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“…More than this, syndromic surveillance is poorly suited to identify minor changes of rare but potentially severe diseases. Other sources of information, such as reports from aeromedical repatriation, are more likely to identify the frequency of rare but severe diseases such as those demonstrated by other groups [ 28 , 29 ]. However, aeromedical repatriation is in the national responsibility.…”

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Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali (EUTM MLI) – a four-year experience

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BackgroundThe European Union Training Mission Mali (EUTM MLI) is a multinational military training deployment to the Western African tropical nation of Mali. Based on routinely collected disease and non-battle injury surveillance data, this study quantifies the true impact of infectious diseases for this tropical mission and potential seasonal variations in infectious disease threats.MethodsCategorized health events during the EUTM MLI mission and associated lost working days were reported using the EpiNATO-2 report. Infection-related health events were descriptively analyzed for a 4-year period from the 12th week in 2013 to the 13th week in 2017. Aggregated EpiNATO-2 data collected from all missions other than EUTM MLI were used as a comparator.ResultsAmong the infectious diseases reported by EUTM MLI, non-severe upper respiratory infections and gastrointestinal diseases dominated quantitatively, accounting for 1.65 and 1.42 consultations per 100 person-weeks, respectively. The number of recorded infectious disease-associated lost working days during the whole study interval was 723. Seasonal changes in disease frequency were detectable. More gastrointestinal infections were seen in the rainy season, and more respiratory infections occurred in the dry season; these were associated with peaks of more than 2.5 consultations per 100 person-weeks for both categories.ConclusionsDespite initial concerns focused on tropical infectious diseases during this mission in tropical Mali, upper respiratory tract and gastrointestinal infections predominate. The relatively low number of reported lost working days may indicate that these infections are at the milder end of the spectrum of infectious diseases despite a likely reporting bias.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s40779-018-0166-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The sex ratio of women and men transported from the ATO/ JFO area differs significantly from that of evacuated NATO troops during the operation in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the data evacuated patients by the Royal Air Force, 14.1 % were women; men -85.9 % [5,14], and among patients evacuated by the United States Air Force -11.0 % of men 89.0 % [3]. In terms of sex, we have not been able to investigate the return to duty in the war zone, but according to the literature, women are much more likely to return to work than men.…”

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“…Because the distribution of the data was not known a priori, a method of analysis known as XmR maps was used to study the patterns associated with change over time. XmR-maps are a tool from a set of methods known as statistical process control [4,14].…”

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Peculiarities of aeromedical evacuation of wounded and sick and ways of its improvement based on the experience of anti-terrorist operation and joint forces operation

Babii¹,

Verba²,

Pashkovskyi³

2020

Biomed. and Biosoc. Anthrop.

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The article is describing general principles of organization of aeromedical evacuation of the patients by helicopters directly from the battlefield area. The number and nature of casualties caused by military aggression determined the organizational and functional features of aeromedical evacuation from the zone of military conflict. The purpose of the study is to investigate demographic, clinical, chronometric and economic indicators of air medical evacuation from the zone of military conflict and between hospitals within Ukraine to create, based on their global analysis, the optimal organizational and functional model of air medical evacuation in Ukraine. Created database, which filled out from various sources. Leading syndromes grouped the diagnoses with which the patients transported. Method of analysis known as an XmR chart used to study dynamic of the aeromedical evacuation process, which is one tool from a collection of methods known as statistical process control. The aeromedical evacuation system must be able to evacuate a sufficiently large number of stable patients from anywhere on the line of contact, and be flexible to respond in the event of a relatively small number of very unstable patients in the area of hostilities who need to be evacuated quickly enough. The obtained statistics can be useful for short- and medium-term planning of the aeromedical evacuation service. The configuration and operation of aeromedical units always depends on the nature and specificity of the military conflict, but the planning of deployment and determination of requirements of means for aeromedical evacuation should always base on the analysis of previous experience.

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“…A disaster may order hospital evacuation also because of lack of infrastructure. However the transferring physician should keep in mind that it may take substantial amount of time before the patient is back to a hospital equivalent with the one the patient left [6].…”

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Battlefront medicine – scoop and scoot or stay and play?

Sasidharan¹

2021

Rev. chil. anest.

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United Kingdom Military Aeromedical Evacuation in the Post-9/11 Era

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Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali (EUTM MLI) – a four-year experience

Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali (EUTM MLI) – a four-year experience

Peculiarities of aeromedical evacuation of wounded and sick and ways of its improvement based on the experience of anti-terrorist operation and joint forces operation

Battlefront medicine – scoop and scoot or stay and play?

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