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ReviewCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2015

Advances in damage control resuscitation and surgery: implications on the organization of future military field forces.

Homer Tien, Andrew Beckett, Naisan Garraway, Max Talbot, Dylan Pannell, Thamer Alabbasi

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Review in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Proposed specifications of a mobile operating room for far-forward surgeryCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Homer TienThe Canadian Forces Health Services, the 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Petawawa, Ont., the Trauma Services and the Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Medical Centre, Toronto, Ont.
Andrew BeckettThe 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Petawawa, Ont. and the Trauma Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Que.
Naisan GarrawayThe 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Petawawa, Ont.
Max TalbotThe 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Petawawa, Ont. and McGill University, Montréal, Que.
Dylan PannellThe 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Petawawa, Ont. and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.
Thamer AlabbasiThe Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical support to deployed field forces is increasingly becoming a shared responsibility among allied nations. National military medical planners face several key challenges, including fiscal restraints, raised expectations of standards of care in the field and a shortage of appropriately trained specialists. Even so, medical services are now in high demand, and the availability of medical support may become the limiting factor that determines how and where combat units can deploy. The influence of medical factors on operational decisions is therefore leading to an increasing requirement for multinational medical solutions. Nations must agree on the common standards that govern the care of the wounded. These standards will always need to take into account increased public expectations regarding the quality of care. The purpose of this article is to both review North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) policies that govern multinational medical missions and to discuss how recent scientific advances in prehospital battlefield care, damage control resuscitation and damage control surgery may inform how countries within NATO choose to organize and deploy their field forces in the future.

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Military PersonnelCanadaHumansMedical MissionsMilitary MedicinePractice Guidelines as TopicResuscitationWounds and Injuries

Identifiers

PMID26100784
PMCPMC4467505

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