73 results match your criteria: "Military Teaching Hospital "Clermont Tonnerre"[Affiliation]"

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of simulation as a means to teach Psychological First Aid in Operations (PFA-O). We propose to use a model built on research in didactics to assess the factors which may or may not encourage trainers to adopt and embrace this teaching technique.

Material And Method: We submitted a questionnaire to all PFA-O trainers working in France, comprising 15 criteria divided into three dimensions: usability, usefulness and acceptability.

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  • Global uncertainties have led Western nations to undertake evacuations, exemplified by France's Operation SAGITTAIRE in Sudan during a civil war in April 2023, which involved a sophisticated multi-modal evacuation of over 1,000 individuals from 84 nationalities.
  • The operation involved special forces and medical teams, functioning around the clock for 96 hours without fatalities, executing various surgical procedures and utilizing the Joint Medical Surgical Center in Djibouti as a key medical facility.
  • The findings from the operation stress the necessity of a robust health support system for such military interventions, advocating for a comprehensive approach in Non-combatant Evacuation Operations as part of French military doctrine.
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Introduction : Improvements in combat casualty care have increased survival rates, but these patients are at particular risk of developing multiple organ failure (MOF). We investigated the incidence and severity of MOF in a cohort of severe combat casualties. Materials and Methods : This retrospective study included all on-duty French land army war casualties with a severe combat injury requiring intensive care unit admission during 2009-2023.

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The prevalence of seasickness in a population of French civilian sailors.

Int Marit Health

October 2024

French Society of Maritime Medicine Brest, F-29200, France, 29200 brest, France.

Background: Motion sickness, is the onset of a series of clinical signs when travelling in a means of locomotion. Boats are the most common source of kinetosis, causing seasickness. Although this condition is often benign, it can severely affect the quality of life of seafarers, as well as the quality of their work.

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Introduction: During operational missions, while the management of physical injuries in the field remains the priority, the identification of operational incapacity of psychological origin is necessary as it is equally crucial for the safety of the individual, the group and the mission. The French Military Health Service has developed a Psychological First Aid Training in Operation (PFATO) course based on relational simulations, for military service members. The aim is to identify the early signs of psychological distress in a comrade and to adopt an adapted and protective attitude.

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Acute Q fever revealed by an anti-phospholipid syndrome: A case report.

Rev Med Interne

July 2024

Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Military Teaching Hospital Laveran, 34, boulevard Alphonse-Laveran, 13384 Marseille, France. Electronic address:

Introduction: Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii. Acute infection is mainly asymptomatic. In other cases it mainly causes a flu-like illness, a pneumonia, or an hepatitis.

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Pathological findings associated with the updated European Society of Cardiology 2022 guidelines for preoperative cardiac testing: an observational cohort modelling study.

Br J Anaesth

April 2024

Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany; CARID, Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Article Synopsis
  • The 2022 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for preoperative evaluations aimed to improve the detection of pathological findings compared to the 2014 guidelines.
  • A study analyzed data from 15,529 patients and found that the updated recommendations changed testing protocols for many, but did not enhance the overall effectiveness of cardiac testing.
  • The use of B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) for risk estimation did not improve pathological findings, and adherence to the new guidelines showed no significant link to major adverse cardiovascular events.
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Introduction: Instant messaging applications (MAs) represent a major component of modern telecommunications for data transmission. During overseas deployments, military doctors increasingly rely on MAs due to their availability and the urgent need to obtain advice from specialists for optimal patient management. In this study, we aimed to describe and analyze the context and usage characteristics of these MAs for transmitting medical data by military general practitioners (GPs) during overseas missions.

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Background: Identifying patients at risk of secondary neurologic deterioration (SND) after moderate traumatic brain injury (moTBI) is a challenge, as such patients will need specific care. No simple scoring system has been evaluated to date. This study aimed to determine clinical and radiological factors associated with SND after moTBI and to propose a triage score.

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ACTIfit™: 38% full resorption at 8 years in a cohort of 18 cases.

Orthop Traumatol Surg Res

October 2023

Service de chirurgie crthopédique et traumatologique, hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Clermont-Tonnerre, Brest, France.

Background: Preserving meniscal tissue is a major priority in young, physically active patients. Extensive meniscal defects may result in exercise pain and premature osteoarthritis. ACTIfit™ is a synthetic meniscal substitute that may improve short-term functional scores via biological integration with meniscal tissue regeneration.

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Background: Guidelines endorse self-reported functional capacity for preoperative cardiovascular assessment, although evidence for its predictive value is inconsistent. We hypothesised that self-reported effort tolerance improves prediction of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) after noncardiac surgery.

Methods: This is an international prospective cohort study (June 2017 to April 2020) in patients undergoing elective noncardiac surgery at elevated cardiovascular risk.

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Advances in trauma care to save lives from traumatic injury: A narrative review.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

August 2023

From the Intensive Care Unit, Military Teaching Hospital Clermont Tonnerre (S.J., A.P., D.D.D.M.), Brest, France; US Army Institute of Surgical Research (G.J.), San Antonio, Texas; and Joint Trauma System, DoD Center of Excellence for Trauma (G.J.), San Antonio, Texas.

Recent advances on trauma management from the prehospital setting to in hospital care led to a better surviving severe trauma rate. Mortality from exsanguination remains the first preventable mortality. Damage-control resuscitation and surgery are evolving and thus some promising concepts are developing.

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An ecological approach to clinically assess nightmares in military service members with severe PTSD.

Sleep Med

March 2023

VIFASOM (Vigilance Fatigue Sommeil et Santé Publique) URP 7330, Université Paris Cité, Paris, 75005, France; French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Bretigny-sur-Orge, 91220, France.

Article Synopsis
  • Trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) significantly affect the sleep quality and treatment outcomes of PTSD patients, making it important to study them in realistic home environments rather than sleep labs.
  • The study utilized two ambulatory devices to collect objective sleep data from 60 veterans and active-duty service members, correlating this data with their subjective complaints about sleep and TRNs over five nights.
  • Findings showed a connection between TRNs and sleep stages, revealing that most awakenings from TRNs occurred during NREM sleep, alongside differences in electrodermal activity (EDA) before TRNs, suggesting EDA may serve as a potential marker for these nightmares.
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Clinical description of sleep and trauma-related nightmares in a population of French active-duty members and veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Encephale

February 2024

VIFASOM (Vigilance Fatigue Sommeil et Santé Publique) EA 7330, Université de Paris, 75005 Paris, France; Service de Psychiatrie, HIA Bégin, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France.

Introduction: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a major public health problem. The most frequent complaints in this pathology are sleep disorders and trauma-related nightmares in particular. Trauma-related nightmares are characteristic of PTSD and impact its severity insofar as they are associated with more severe, longer-lasting symptoms and resistance to first-line treatments.

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There are currently no data regarding characteristics of critically ill patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant of concern (VOC) 20H/501Y.V2. We therefore aimed to describe changes of characteristics in critically ill patients with Covid-19 between the first and the second wave when viral genome sequencing indicated that VOC was largely dominant in Mayotte Island (Indian Ocean).

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Background: Real-time sequences allow functional evaluation of various joint structures during a continuous motion and help understand the pathomechanics of underlying musculoskeletal diseases.

Purpose: To assess and compare the image quality of the two most frequently used real-time sequences for joint dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), acquired during finger and ankle joint motion.

Material And Methods: A real-time dynamic acquisition protocol, including radiofrequency (RF)-spoiled and balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequences, optimized for temporal resolution with similar spatial resolution, was performed using a 3.

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Introduction: In the military population, trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) are highly associated with deployments and combat-related events. Trauma-related nightmares are also correlated with severity, treatment resistance, and chronicity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, to date, no specific measure of TRNs has been validated for use in the French language.

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