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Extrem Physiol Med
August 2013
Extreme Environments Laboratory, Department of Sport and Exercise Science (DSES), University of Portsmouth, Spinnaker Building, Cambridge Road, Portsmouth PO1 2ER, UK.
Background: Environmental conditions in the Falklands Conflict of 1982 favoured the genesis of cold injuries. Immediately, post-war, cold injury morbidity and its contributory factors were assessed, in the personnel of UK 3 Commando Brigade (3 Cdo Bde).
Methods: A questionnaire survey of the 3,006 members of 3 Cdo Bde who landed on the islands was conducted within 6-10 weeks of the end of hostilities.
J R Army Med Corps
February 2008
Academic Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, Teeside, Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich.
Disabil Rehabil
July 2000
Colchester and North East Essex Headway, Headway House, Essex, UK.
Imagine this. You don't remember but you fell from a ladder, a distance of 20 ft onto concrete, on Christmas eve whilst cleaning windows. You suffered a severe head injury and emerged from a coma four weeks later yelling and fighting thinking that you are back in the Falklands.
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