Intensive care medicine on military operations in the resource-limited environment: a case series.

This paper describes a series of critically ill patients who were cared for at a UK military field hospital during Op TRENTON 4, in support of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. These cases highlight the potential challenges in managing the critically ill patient during contingency operations that take place in an austere resource-limited environment.

Civil-military cooperation on operational deployment: the Bentiu State Hospital medical training programme.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has a mandate to protect civilians and support the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Recognising this during Operation TRENTON, UK staff of the UN level 2 hospital were able to support the people of Bentiu through initiatives to develop local health services with on-the-ground civil-military cooperation. The Bentiu State Hospital Medical Training Programme was developed to train and mentor staff associated with healthcare in Bentiu, to help improve service delivery, support local health services with on-the-ground non-governmental organisation/military coordination and to create a platform to facilitate the sharing of information to support local health services with the overall humanitarian response.

Emergency medical dispatch recognition, clinical intervention and outcome of patients in traumatic cardiac arrest from major trauma: an observational study.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the demographics of reported traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) victims, prehospital resuscitation and survival to hospital rate.

Setting: Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in south-east England, covering a resident population of 4.5 million and a transient population of up to 8 million people.