Reviews

Actu Santé (FRA)
reviews Actu Santé
Review of the French military health service
Issues are online and downloadable:
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (GBR)
reviews Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (GBR)
Issues online and downloadable:
www.ramcjournal.com/index.html

Médecine et Armées (FRA)
reviews Médecine et Armées
Review of the French medical military health service
Issues online and downloadable:
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees

Gülhane Medical Journal (TUR)
reviews Gülhane Medical Journal - Gülhane Tip Dergisi
Gülhane Medical Journal is the official scientific publication of the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (Ankara - Turkey), published quarterly.
Issues are online and downloadable:
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org

ADF Health Journal (AUS)
reviews ADF Health Journal
Australian Defence Forces Health Journal
Issues online and downloadable:
www.defence.gov.au/health/infocentre/journals/i-ADFHJ.htm

Medical Corps International Forum
reviews Medical Corps International Forum
MCI is represented in 200 countries and an independent source of information for military medical professionals
Issues are online and downloadable:
www.mci-forum.com
www.mci-forum.com/archive

Military Medical/CBRN Technology
reviews Military Medical/CBRN Technology (USA)
Independent magazine focusing on the military medical community
kmimediagroup.com/military-medicalcbrn-technology
www.kmimediagroup.com/mmt-archives.html

RAMC Journal (GBR) - September 2008
21 Jul 2009 - reviews Volume 154; Number 3; Sep 08

RAMC Journal (GBR) - June 2008
21 Jul 2009 - adminreviews Armed Forces Mental Health (Volume 154; Number 2; Jun 08)
www.ramcjournal.com/past_08.html

RAMC Journal (GBR) - March 2008
9 Mar 2009 - adminreviews Royal Army Medical Corps Journal
Volume 154; Number 1; Mar 08
www.ramcjournal.com/past_08.html

ADF Health Journal (AUS) - December 2008
10 Feb 2009 - reviews ADF Health Journal
December 2008 - Volume 9, Number 2
www.defence.gov.au/health/infocentre/journals/ADFHJ_Dec08/Contents_1208.html
Front Cover

Actu-Santé (FRA) - January-February 2009
10 Feb 2009 - reviews Actu-Santé (FRA) - January-February 2009
Dossier sur la direction régionale du service de santé de Brest
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_janvier_fevrier_2009
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/140280/1218027/file/Actu_sante109_janfev09%20.pdf

Actu-Santé (FRA) - November-December 2008
10 Feb 2009 - reviews Actu-Santé (FRA) - November-December 2008
Dossier sur la direction régionale du service de santé de Bordeaux
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_novembre_decembre_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/138262/1202830/file/actusante108nov_dec1.pdf

Actu-Santé (FRA) - September-October 2008
27 Oct 2008 - reviews Actu Santé (FRA) – September-October 2008 - N° 107
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_septembre_octobre_2008

Dossier sur le programme de transformation du SSA
Journal of the RAMC (GBR) - December 2007
16 Aug 2008 - reviews The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (Volume 153; Number 4; Dec 07)
Special issue: Combat Casualty Care
www.ramcjournal.com/special.html#ccc

Actu Santé (FRA) – July-August 2008
13 Aug 2008 - reviews Actu Santé (FRA) – July-August 2008 - N° 106
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_juillet_aout_2008

ADF Health Journal (AUS) - June 2008
12 Aug 2008 - reviews ADF Health Journal
Journal of the Australian Defence Health Service
June 2008 - Volume 9 Number 1

Actu Santé (FRA) – May-June 2008
14 Jul 2008 - reviews Actu Santé (FRA) – May-June 2008 - N° 105
Dossier sur l'hôpital Sainte-Anne www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/122695/1075150/file/actusante105.pdf
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_mai_juin_2008

• Point d’étape sur les réformes en cours
• MORPHÉE : 11 soldats évacués
• HIA Sainte-Anne
• Le Tchad, un théâtre au coeur de l’actualité
• L’hôpital d’Haïfa
• Médicaliser en milieu difficile

Médecine et Armées (FRA) - June 2008
29 Jun 2008 - reviews Médecine et Armées – June 2008
Tome 36 n° 3
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees/medecine_armees_juin_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/122891/1079628/file/MEA_T36_N3.pdf

Gulhane Medical Journal (TUR) - #1 - 2008
14 Jun 2008 - reviews Gülhane Tip Dergisi (Gulhane Medical Journal)
Medical Journal of the Gülhane Askeri Tip Akademisi (GATA) (Gulhane Medical Military Academy) - ANKARA (TUR)
2008, Volume 50,1
(english and turkish)
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org/content.php3?id=22

Médecine et Armées (FRA) - April 2008
1 Jun 2008 - reviews MÉDECINE ET ARMÉES Revue du Service de santé des armées - France
T. 36 - n° 2 - April 2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees/medecine_armees_avril_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/117542/1028997/file/MEA_T36_N2_Bdef.pdf

PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
CONTENTS:

• 101 • The medicine to the armies: a particular environment, a necessity of rehabilitation. The example of the knee of the dog handler.
• 105 • Effort deconditioning.
• 115 • Pain in physical medicine.
• 127 • Rehabilitation and reintegration of a spinal cord injured.
• 135 • Lower back pain: diagnosis and therapeutic coverage in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
• 145 • The chronic abdominal pains of parietal origin.
• 149 • The place of liaison psychiatrist in a department of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
• 155 • Future of rehabilitation medicine in sub-saharan Africa.
• 161 • Professionnal practices evaluation : experience feedback of V2.
• 171 • Approaches of the quality of life measures. Contributions in physical medicine and of rehabilitation.
• 178 • A defence of early mobilizations.
• 181 • Clinical trial in unit and rehabilitation
• 187 • Physiotherapist, an afloat trade: on a mission aboard « Charles de Gaulle » aircraft carrier.

Médecine et armées (FRA) - February 2008
31 May 2008 - reviews
Tome 36 N° 1 - February 2008
Thérapeutique et technique en situations d'urgence
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees/medecine_et_armees_fevrier_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/117349/1027477/file/MEA_T36_N1_Bdef.pdf

CONTENTS:

• THERAPEUTIC AND TECHNIQUE IN EMERGENCY
• 3 • Is Novoseven ® useful in war traumatology?
• 11 • Fluid resuscitation in hemorrhagic shock: experimental model comparing normal saline and an association hypertonic.
• 19 • The intravenous regional anesthesia: an old but still topical practice in 2006.
• 25 • Assessmet of ultrasonography performed by an emergency physician. Introducing ultrasonographic screening in emergency-rooms.
• 33 • Evaluation of the use of laryngeal tube (LTS IITM) by personals of units medical services.
• 39 • Pre-hospital thrombolysis by tenecteplace of a massive pulmonary emboly with a prolonged cardiac arrest.
• 43 • Blood transfusion aboard SSBN: a specific operation context.
• 51 • Evolution of resuscitation in the armed forces: about the Algerian conflict.
• MEDICO MILITARY PRACTICE
• 55 • Practices and requirements for health education in french armed forces in 2005.
• 61 • The odontogram and the medical french forces service.
• PROGRESS CASE REPORT
• 65 • Predictable succes factors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of sudden hearing loss: a prospective study based on 101 patients.
• 73 • Particularities of oral emergencies. The place or military dental surgeons in the care management networks.
• 77 • D-dimer’s value for diagnosis of cerebral thrombo-phlebitis without abnormalities on early MRI with venous sequencies.
• 83 • Spontaneaous intracranial hypotension, an unusual cause of headache.
• EPIDEMIOLOGY
• 89 • A leptospirosis case occuring in an aircraftman.
• 93 • Rhinoscleroma. A three-case report and review of the literature.

Actu Santé (FRA) – March-April 2008
27 May 2008 - reviews Actu Santé (FRA) – March-April 2008 - N° 104
Dossier sur les opérations extérieures 2007
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_mars_avril_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/113830/992228/file/ActuSante104.pdf

• IntraNormes: faciliter l’accès aux normes
• Quand l’aptitude m’est contée
• Une kiné aux Jeux Olympiques de Pékin
• Déménagement du GMC de l’opération LICORNE
• Colloque international sur le Chikungunya à La Réunion
• Bilan médical de la coupe du monde de rugby
• Séminaire franco-allemand à l’IMASSA
• Formation à la médecine hyperbare
• Thaïlande, crash du vol OG 269
• Guyane, le papier buvard, nouvel outil d’enquête épidémiologique
• Un médecin français formé par l’US Navy
• Un médecin au coeur du Groenland
• Les nouveautés du CeTIMA

Actu Santé (FRA) – January-February 2008
27 May 2008 - reviews Actu Santé (FRA) – January-February 2008 - N° 103
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_janvier_fevrier_2008
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/106379/934061/file/Actu_103.pdf

NMGT - January 2008
29 Feb 2008 - reviews Nederlands Militair Geneeskundig Tijdschrift (Netherlands Military Medical Review)
V O L U M E 6 1 - J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 8 - I S S U E 1
C O N T E N T S

• The estimation of functional capacities at Dutch military forces with deployment-related psychosomatic problems: a proposal for a new assessment method
• Looking back on deployment
• Description of a remedial platoon of recruits at the stage of specific function training
• Emergo-metrics. A new tool in emergency medicine
• Importance of intra-oculair straylight measurement for aeromedical certification
• Straylight with glasses and silicone hydrogel contact lenses

www.intermedic.nl/NMGT20081.pdf

ADF Health (AUS) - November 2007
2 Feb 2008 - reviews Australia ADF Health
Journal of the Australian Defence Health Service
November 2007
Vol. 8 No. 2
www.defence.gov.au/health/infocentre/journals/ADFHJ_nov07/i-ADFHJ_Nov2007.html

• Front Cover
• Defence Health Services Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee
• Personal protective measures against mosquitoes: insecticide-treated uniforms, bednets and tents
• The challenge of continuing professional development for ADF nurses
• Immediate management of burn injury
• The best trained Army "medics" the ADF has ever had
• The battlefield medic
• The use of tourniquets in the Australian Defence Force
• Rearward facing seats in flight: an aviation review
• What is e-health and why is it important?
• Medical evacuation on the Kwai Noi River, 1943
• Forensic recovery and identification of Vietnam war dead

Gulhane Medical Journal (TUR) - #4-2007
26 Jan 2008 - reviews Gülhane Tip Dergisi (Gulhane Medical Journal)
Medical Journal of the Gülhane Askeri Tip Akademisi (GATA) (Gulhane Medical Military Academy) - ANKARA (TUR)
2007, Volume 49, 4
(english and turkish)
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org
gulhanemedicaljournal.org/content.php3?id=21

Actu Santé - November-December 2007
26 Jan 2008 - reviews Actu Santé novembre-décembre 2007
Actu Sante n° 102
Dossier sur les MITHA (paramedical personnel)
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_novembre_decembre_2007
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/99441/876994/file/ActuSante102.pdf

Médecine et Armées - December 2007
26 Jan 2008 - reviews Médecine et armées décembre 2007
Tome 35 N° 5
Theme: Trois siècles de Médecine aux Armées (Three Centuries of Medicine in the Armed Forces)
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/103239/908230/file/Inter_T35_N5_Web.pdf

Gulhane Medical Journal (TUR) - #3-2007
2 Dec 2007 - reviews Gülhane Tip Dergisi (Gulhane Medical Journal)
Medical Journal of the Gülhane Askeri Tip Akademisi (GATA) (Gulhane Medical Military Academy) - ANKARA (TUR)
2007, Volume 49, Number 3
(english and turkish)
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org
www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org/content.php3?id=20

Medical Military Technology - November 2007
2 Dec 2007 - reviews Volume 11 - Issue 7
www.military-medical-technology.com/archives.cfm?CoverID=218

Actu-Santé - September-October 2007
22 Oct 2007 - reviews Actu-Santé - September-October 2007
Dossier sur l’hôpital Legouest à Metz
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/90119/803836/file/actu%20sante%20n%C2%B0101.pdf

Médecine et Armées - October 2007 22 Oct 2007 - reviews Médecine et Armées - October 2007
Tome 35 N°4
dossier thématique consacré à "la nutrition en milieu militaire"
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/92593/822066/file/MEA_T35_N4_%20Inter_Bdef.pdf

Military Medical Technology - October 2007
7 Oct 2007 - reviews
www.military-medical-technology.com/archives.cfm?CoverID=210

NMGT (NLD) - September 2007
1 Oct 2007 - reviews "Nederlands Militair Geneeskundig Tijdschrift" (NLD) - Volume 60 - September 2007 - Issue 5
Netherlands Military Medical Review
in Dutch with English summary

Contents:

• The policy concerning screening of tuberculosis infection and the relevance of Quantiferon study in the Central Military Hospital for the military personal
• Original contributions: Could you raise the table please?
• Respiratory muscle activity as an indirect measure for lungfunction in patients with asthma and COPD
• Burn-out: a closer view
• HAHO / HALO: challenging in a physiological manner
• Decompression Sickness (DCS) in Military Aviation, sub atmospheric pressure causes problems
• Book reviews: Handbook vaccinations
• Mary Seacole adventures, in the West and in the Krim

www.intermedic.nl/nmgt2007.pdf

Journal of the RAMC (GBR) - June 2007
30 Sep 2007 - reviews
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (GBR)
Volume 153; Number 2; Jun 07
www.ramcjournal.com/current.html

CEP Newsletter #2 - June 2007
10 Sep 2007 - reviews CEP Newsletter #2 - June 2007

• Developments in the SCEPC
• What’s going on in the Planning Boards and Committees?
• National perspectives: US and France
• EADRCC Update – Exercise Idassa 2007
• Civil Expert Focus - Antero Lahtinen, Vice President Finnair Cargo
• What do CEP’s customers think?
• Supporting the ISAF Commander
• Allied Command Transformation
• The NATO School Oberammergau
• CEP Developments in other international organisations

www.hq.nato.int/issues/cep/cep_newsletter_02e.pdf (12 p - 940 KB)

Actu-Santé - July-August 07
8 Sep 2007 - reviews Dossier sur l’hôpital Clermont-Tonnerre à Brest
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_juillet_aout_2007
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/87188/782981/file/actu_sante_100.pdf (1.31 MB)

NATO RTO Newsletter - July 2007
29 Aug 2007 - reviews Issue 2 - July 2007
Chairman’s Message
Panel Highlights
Arrivals & Departures
Upcoming NATO Meetings
www.rta.nato.int/news/Issue2_July_2007.pdf (4 p - 390 KB)

Gulhane Medical Journal (TUR) - #2-2007
26 Aug 2007 - reviews Gülhane Tip Dergisi (Gulhane Medical Journal)
Medical Journal of the Gülhane Askeri Tip Akademisi (GATA) (Gulhane Medical Military Academy) - ANKARA (TUR)
2007, Volume 49, Number 2

Contents:

• Histopathological changes and the effects of prednisolone treatment in contralateral testis in rats subjected to unilateral testicular torsion
• Validity and reliability of "Barriers Scale" in utilization of research results by nurses
• Clinical features and outcomes of treatment in our patients with orbital cellulitis
• A comparison of nifedipine and ritodrine in the management of preterm labor
• Central corneal and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with diabetes mellitus
• Glaucomatous risk factors in patients with ischemic heart disease
• Long-term results of pubovaginal sling
• Results of the anti-incontinence surgery in female patients
• Adherence to treatment in hemodialysis patients: a multiple-aspect approach
• Widespread atypical hypersecretory hyperplasia and focal carcinoma in-situ in breast: report of a case
• A case of Kawasaki disease treated with coronary artery bypass grafting
• A case of mumps with presternal edema
• Poland syndrome in association with macrocephaly: a case report
• A case of the eyelid sebaceous gland carcinoma
• Perirenal abscess and nephrobronchial fistula developing secondary to xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
• Sonographic and multidetector computed tomographic findings of 6 cases with inflammatory bowel disease

www.gulhanemedicaljournal.org/content.php3?id=19

NMGT (NLD) - July 2007
20 Aug 2007 - reviews "Nederlands Militair Geneeskundig Tijdschrift" (NLD) - Volume 60 - July 2007 - Issue 4
Netherlands Military Medical Review
in Dutch with English summary

Contents:

• Protection against insect bites: promising developments?
• Nursing prevention during a mission
• The “X”-factor of the Occupational Health Care Services (OHCs) in the Netherlands
• What stands for the diminishing “recovery time”- factor of burnout?
• NATO Flight Surgeon’s Conference and Technical Course 2007
• Combat Trauma Airway Management: what is the “expeditionary standard”?
• Book reviews: Health information and behaviour change

www.intermedic.nl/nmgt.pdf (2.55 MB - 36 p)

ADF Health (AUS) - April 2007
22 Jul 2007 - reviews Journal of the Australian Defence Health Service - biannual

Contents:

• A wide-ranging Journal
• The modern management of burns
• Next generation aeromedical evacuation: the C-17 Globemaster
• Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria: are they sufficiently reliable?
• Early intervention for acute psychological trauma
• Financial support: helping Reserve service by health professionals
• Member care versus humanitarian aid: using the Iraq conflict to examine the role of military medicine in war
• Sciatic nerve block in a battle casualty amputee
• Hospital Ship No. VIII
• Japanese encephalitis
• Research priorities at the CMVH
• Operation Pakistan Assist
• A brief history of the Royal Australian Air Force Reserves and the 2006 Reserve restructure

Mercury - June 2007
7 Jul 2007 - reviews United States Monthly newspaper from the US Army Medical Department
June 2007
www.armymedicine.army.mil/news/mercury/07-06/index.cfm

US Army Medical Department Journal - Jan-Mar 2007
6 Jul 2007 - reviews United States US Army quarterly

Theme:

• Traumatic Wound Care On and Off the Battlefield
• Aggressive Proactive Combat Damage Control Surgery
• The Blood Augmentation Team
• Optimizing Transport of Postoperative Damage Control Patients in the Combat Zone
• Management of Traumatic War Wounds Using Vacuum-Assisted Closure Dressings in an Austere Environment
• Causes of Death in US Special Operations Forces in the Global War on Terrorism: 2001-2004
• The Process of Care of Battle Casualties
• Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• The Growth of the Profession of Occupational Therapy
• Medical Care in the Sustainment Brigade
• Evidence-Based Medicine: The Way to Cost Effective, Quality Medical Care

www.cs.amedd.army.mil/dasqadownload.aspx?policyid=165 (pdf - 25 MB - 71 p)

Médecine et Armées - June 2007
29 Jun 2007 - reviews Special issue: Operations
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/79562/726718/file/MEA__T35_N3_Inter_Bdef.pdf (98 p)

The Officer (USA) - July 2007
reviews In this issue:
Recruiting and retaining "The Millenials" - p 36
Long term PTSD study - p 30
www.roa.org/site/DocServer/0707_officer.pdf?docID=2361

Actu-Santé - May-June 2007
29 May 2007 - reviews
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante
Dossier sur l'hôpital Laveran
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/75095/689430/file/actusante_n%C2%B099.pdf

Médecine et Armées - April 2007
reviews dossier thématique sur la microbiologie médicale
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees/medecine_et_armees_avril_2007
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/72680/671135/file/MEA_T35_N2_Bdef.pdf

The Reserve Force Volunteer 2007 (ZAF)
reviews Republic of South Africa Annual publication about the South African Reserve Force
The Military Health Service Reserve: page 58 to 67
www.rfdiv.mil.za/publications/publication2007.pdf

Portrait of the South African National Vice President of CIOMR: Lt Col Aquina Thulare
www.dcc.mil.za/sasoldier/2005/August2005.pdf (page 35)

Actu Santé - March-April 2007
reviews France Actu Santé - French medical military review.
Theme: Dossier about the deployments in 2006.
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/actu_sante/actu_sante_mars_avril_2007
Downloadable (pdf): www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/67099/625893/file/Actu%20sante%20n%C2%B098.pdf

Médecine et Armées - February 2007
reviews France Review of the French Military Health Service
www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/votre_espace/revues/medecine_et_armees/medecine_et_armees_fevrier_2007
Downloadable (pdf): www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/content/download/64624/599157/file/MEA_T35_N1_72dpi.pdf

Edition 6 - ACT Medical Quarterly Newsletter
27 Mar 2007 - reviews Newsletter from Allied Command Transformation
Edition 6 - ACT Medical Quarterly Newsletter

KSD Review - January 07
reviews Switzerland "Informationsschrift KSD"
Review of the Swiss Co-ordinated Health Service (Koordinierter Sanitätsdienst (KSD))
(in German and French)
www.lba.admin.ch/internet/lba/de/home/logistikleistung/sanit/koordinierter0/dokumentation/informationsschrift.html
www.lba.admin.ch/internet/lba/de/home/logistikleistung/sanit/koordinierter0/dokumentation/informationsschrift.NewsListPar.0009.DownloadFile.tmp/Informationsschrift%20KSD%204_06_Internet_d.pdf

Reserve Affairs Advisor (RAA) Info No.14
reviews RAA Info is a bulletin produced by the SHAPE Public Information Office, Reserve Affairs Advisor (RAA). It represents a compilation of news, reports and general information related to the Reserves and the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR), as well as the equivalent organisation for the Medical Reserve Officers (CIOMR). It also provides important information related to the National Reserve Forces Committee (NRFC).
www.nato.int/shape/community/raa/indexinfo.htm
Issue No. 14
www.nato.int/shape/community/raa/06-14.pdf