Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med
October 2024
Background: The war in Ukraine provides purposefully anesthesiologists and intensivists with important data for improving the management of trauma patients. This scoping review aims to investigate the specific management of war-related trauma patients, during the war in Ukraine, through an objective and comprehensive analysis.
Methods: A comprehensive search of the Embase, Medline, and Open Grey databases from 2014 to February 2024 yielded studies focusing on anesthesia and surgery.
Background: The French Armed Forces conduct asymmetric warfare in the Sahara-Sahel Strip. Casualties are treated with damage control resuscitation to the extent possible. Questions remain about the feasibility and sustainability of using blood for wider use in austere environments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hemorrhagic shock is the leading cause of preventable early death in trauma patients. Transfusion management is guided by international guidelines promoting early and aggressive transfusion strategies. This study aimed to describe transfusion timelines in a trauma center and to identify key points to performing early and efficient transfusions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In 2016, three European scientific societies called for standardization to the "2222" as a European unique phone number in case of in-hospital emergencies. This study describes the management of in-hospital emergency calls in all French military training hospitals and aims to detail their original transition, for the first time in France, to the "2222".
Methods: An electronic standardized questionnaire was emailed to heads of rapid response teams in the eight French military training hospitals.
Introduction: Military anesthesiologists from the French Military Medical Service (FMMS) are part of the Forward Surgical Teams deployed in overseas military operations. The practice of anesthesia in combat zones requires specific skills that are not taught during the initial curriculum for French civilian anesthesiologist. The Pre-Deployment Advanced Course in Anesthesia and Resuscitation (DACAR) program was developed to prepare military anesthesiologist from the FMMS before their deployment in overseas military operations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsoxaben is a pre-emergence herbicide that inhibits cellulose biosynthesis in higher plants. Two loci identified by isoxaben-resistant mutants (ixr1-1, ixr1-2, and ixr2-1) in Arabidopsis have been reported previously. IXR1 was recently shown to encode the cellulose synthase catalytic subunit CESA3 (W.
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