Accidentology of electric scooters.

The proliferation of electric scooters in urban areas is responsible for a growing number of serious injuries to the head and mostly to the face. The risk factors are related to the design of the machines, the user, the sharing of public space in urban centers and the lack of respect for prevention rules. Each one of these parameters deserves corrections to be applicable in this social phenomenon.

[Specificities of war surgery, and capacities of the military health service].

In view of the recent evolution of military conflicts, particularly in the Afghan theater, and the conditions in which wounded warriors are managed in the field prior to hospitalization, the authors examine the technical specificities of medical teams, based on studies of avoidable mortality. War surgery has become a separate specialty, following the disappearance in France of the general surgical specialty, of which it was the military coun-terpart. The authors stress the role of hemorrhaging and its treatment, based on three strategies: damage control resuscitation, blood transfusion, and early evacuation within the "golden hour ".

[Military telemedicine: a network of networks].

Military telemedicine is a form of collaborative medicine based on the use of communication and information networks. It is more a network of networks than of independent systems. It comprises electronic medical files, epidemiological networks, and surgical and medical databases.

[Army surgeons and natal artery, a long connection: on the biography of Paul-Athanase Champenois].

Very frequently quoted in surgical medicine treaties, Champenois, a brilliant military surgeon associated his name to the technique used to control trauma hemorrhages of the superior gluteal artery. Even though current advances have made checking of the internal iliac artery easy, this surgeon's princeps document in 1871 deserves to be known and considered as a model. The authors review the highlights of this medical officer's military career made of overseas campaigns alternating with excellent scientific publications which can serve as examples.